In Spring Boot, adding a custom converter by extending MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter seems to overwrite the existing converter

Question

I\'m trying to create a converter for a custom media-type like application/vnd.custom.hal+json. I saw this answer here, but it won\'t work since you don\'t have

Answer 1

Spring boot docs explicitly states that adding a custom MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter replaces the default value.

From docs:

Finally, if you provide any @Beans of type MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter then they will replace the default value in the MVC configuration. Also, a convenience bean is provided of type HttpMessageConverters (always available if you use the default MVC configuration) which has some useful methods to access the default and user-enhanced message converters.