How to create a custom deserializer in Jackson for a generic type?

Question

Imagine the following scenario:

class  Foo {
    ....
}

class Bar {
    Foo foo;
}

I want to write a cu

Answer 1

This is how you can access/resolve {targetClass} for a Custom Jackson Deserializer. Of course you need to implement ContextualDeserializer interface for this.

public class WPCustomEntityDeserializer extends JsonDeserializer