Kafka Json consumer error java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: READ_UNKNOWN_ENUM_VALUES_USING_DEFAULT_VALUE

Question

I'm using spring boot to run kafka consumer with Json Deserializer. When running the application I'm getting the error

Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: READ_UNKNOWN_ENUM_VALUES_USING_DEFAULT_VALUE
                at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.std.EnumDeserializer.createContextual(EnumDeserializer.java:211)
                at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationContext.handlePrimaryContextualization(DeserializationContext.java:836)
                at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BeanDeserializerBase.resolve(BeanDeserializerBase.java:550)
                at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.DeserializerCache._createAndCache2(DeserializerCache.java:294)
                at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.DeserializerCache._createAndCacheValueDeserializer(DeserializerCache.java:244)
                at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.DeserializerCache.findValueDeserializer(DeserializerCache.java:142)
                at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationContext.findNonContextualValueDeserializer(DeserializationContext.java:644)
                at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BeanDeserializerBase.resolve(BeanDeserializerBase.java:539)
                at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.DeserializerCache._createAndCache2(DeserializerCache.java:294)
                at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.DeserializerCache._createAndCacheValueDeserializer(DeserializerCache.java:244)
                at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.DeserializerCache.findValueDeserializer(DeserializerCache.java:142)
                at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationContext.findNonContextualValueDeserializer(DeserializationContext.java:644)
                at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BeanDeserializerBase.resolve(BeanDeserializerBase.java:539)
                at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.DeserializerCache._createAndCache2(DeserializerCache.java:294)
                at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.DeserializerCache._createAndCacheValueDeserializer(DeserializerCache.java:244)
                at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.DeserializerCache.findValueDeserializer(DeserializerCache.java:142)
                at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationContext.findRootValueDeserializer(DeserializationContext.java:654)
                at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectReader._prefetchRootDeserializer(ObjectReader.java:2430)
                at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectReader.<init>(ObjectReader.java:194)
                at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper._newReader(ObjectMapper.java:780)
                at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper.readerFor(ObjectMapper.java:4263)
                at org.springframework.kafka.support.serializer.JsonDeserializer.initialize(JsonDeserializer.java:502)
                at org.springframework.kafka.support.serializer.JsonDeserializer.setupTarget(JsonDeserializer.java:487)
                ... 56 common frames omitted

I'm using spring-boot 3.0.5 and jackson-databing 2.15.0. Has anyone faced with the same error?

I have tried to debug the problem and it seems to be realted to the fact that my domain object contains Enum type as a property. Jackson scans the structure of the object and eagerly loads deserializer for each type, it fails when reaches the enum type. Does anyone have an idea how I could track and solve the problem?

Answer 1

Looks like it was released in 2.15.0 going by this thread on github.

Adding this 'com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-annotations:2.15.0' to dependencies fixes it. Credit to @Wenod for pointing it out.

Answer 2

java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: READ_UNKNOWN_ENUM_VALUES_USING_DEFAULT_VALUE

It looks like you, somehow, have an older version of jackson-annotations jar on the class path; it should be the same version as the databind jar.

That is a new enum value in JsonFormat.Feature:

   /**
     * Override for <code>DeserializationFeature.READ_UNKNOWN_ENUM_VALUES_USING_DEFAULT_VALUE</code>,
     * which allows unknown Enum values to be ignored and a predefined value specified through
     * {@link com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonEnumDefaultValue @JsonEnumDefaultValue} annotation.
     *
     * @since 2.15
     */
    READ_UNKNOWN_ENUM_VALUES_USING_DEFAULT_VALUE,