Jackson - How to specify a single implementation for interface-referenced deserialization?

Question

I want to deserialize a JSON-Object with Jackson. Because the target is an interface I need to specify which implementation should be used.

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Answer 1

There is another approach that will work if you have just single interface implementation.

public class ClassYouWantToDeserialize {
    @JsonDeserialize(as = ImplementationClass.class)
    private InterfaceClass property;
...
}

This question was answered a while ago but I want to give you another option that doesn't require to tune ObjectMapper and also much simpler then @JsonTypeInfo annotation.