@JsonIgnoreProperties(ignoreUnknown=false) is not working in Spring 4.2.0 and upper version

Question

@JsonIgnoreProperties(ignoreUnknown=false) is not working with spring 4.2.0 and upper version of spring. But it is working with 4.0.4 and 4.0.1 . I am using spring 4.2.8 and

Answer 1

This is happening because the HttpMessageConverter provided by the earlier versions of spring were using ObjectMapper default configuration. But the newer versions of spring use Jackson2ObjectMapperBulider which has DeserializationFeature.FAIL_ON_UNKNOWN_PROPERTIES property set to false by default. (Reference link). You can solve this issue by adding the following in your applicationContext.xml:

    
        
            
        
    


    
    
        
            json=application/json