How to serialize/deserialize third party Java objects with Jackson

Question

As an example, I'd like to serialize/deserialize one object of Slick2d's Animation class using Jackson. What is the simplest way to do this?

Answer 1

You can annotate a mix-in interface if you want to control the generated json on third party classes.

read more here: http://wiki.fasterxml.com/JacksonMixInAnnotations

Update: The current documentation (v2+) is here: https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-docs/wiki/JacksonMixInAnnotations

Answer 2

Just as any object - pass it to objectMapper.readValue(..) / objectMapper.writeValue(..)