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I can't find any explanation about difference between jackson's ObjectMapper to other mappers like dozer/mapStruct/modelMapping/etc. All the articles compare dozer/mapStruct/modelMapping but they ignore ObjectMapper. I can't understand what is wrong? Is the same mapper?
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ObjectMapper is the main actor class of Jackson library. ObjectMapper class ObjectMapper provides functionality for reading and writing JSON, either to and from basic POJOs (Plain Old Java Objects), or to and from a general-purpose JSON Tree Model (JsonNode), as well as related functionality for performing conversions.
Jackson's ObjectMapper is completely thread safe and should not be re-instantiated every time #2170.
The simple readValue API of the ObjectMapper is a good entry point. We can use it to parse or deserialize JSON content into a Java object. Also, on the writing side, we can use the writeValue API to serialize any Java object as JSON output.
Jackson is a framework that provides the means to read and write objects to and from JSON. Typically, it tries to use built in support for common classes and simple types. It will also use a default serializer based on reflection to write the JSON, but will need some guidance for more complex custom objects.
Dozer, MapStruct and ModelMapping are Java Bean to Java Bean mappers frameworks that recursively copies data from one object to another, property by property, field by field.
From other side, ObjectMapper provides functionality for reading and writing JSON, either to and from basic POJOs, or to and from a general-purpose JSON Tree Model. ObjectMapper has some additional features like converting objects (see convertValue method) but it is not a main reason why this class was created.
So, if you want to implement sophisticated mapping between two different models you should use mappers; if you want to serialise model to JSON or deserialise model from JSON payload you have to use ObjectMapper from Jackson.
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