InvalidDefinitionException: Cannot construct instance of `com.vehicle.datatransferobject.VehicleDTO`

Question

In the REST endpoint I'm building in Spring Boot, I'm trying to pass my vehicleDTO to my controller. But before it reaches my controller, there is an error.

InvalidDefinitionException: Cannot construct instance of com.vehicle.datatransferobject.VehicleDTO (no Creators, like default construct, exist): cannot deserialize from Object value (no delegate- or property-based Creator)

vehicleDTO

import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIgnore;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonInclude;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonProperty;
import com.myvehicle.EngineType;

@JsonInclude(JsonInclude.Include.NON_NULL)
public class VehicleDTO {

    @JsonIgnore
    private Long id;

    @NotNull(message = "vehiclenumber can not be null!")
    private String vehiclenumber;

    @Min(2)
    @NotNull(message = "Seat count can not be less than 2!")
    private Integer vehicleseatcount;

    @NotNull(message = "Engine Type can not be null!")
    private EngineType enginetype;

    @Max(5)
    private Integer vehiclerating;



    private VehicleDTO(Long id, String vehiclenumber, Integer vehicleseatcount, EngineType enginetype,Integer vehiclerating){
        this.vehiclenumber=vehiclenumber;
        this.vehicleseatcount=vehicleseatcount;
        this.enginetype=enginetype;
        this.vehiclerating=vehiclerating;
        this.id=id;
    }

    public static VehicleDTOBuilder newBuilder()
    {
        return new VehicleDTOBuilder();
    }

    @JsonProperty
    public Long getId() {
        return id;
    }


    public String getvehiclenumber() {
        return vehiclenumber;
    }


    public Integer getvehicleseatcount() {
        return vehicleseatcount;
    }


    public EngineType getEnginetype() {
        return enginetype;
    }



    public Integer getvehiclerating() {
        return vehiclerating;
    }




    public static class VehicleDTOBuilder{

        private Long id;
        private String vehiclenumber;
        private Integer vehicleseatcount;
        private EngineType enginetype;
        private Integer vehiclerating;

        public VehicleDTOBuilder setId(Long id) {
            this.id = id;
            return this;
        }
        public VehicleDTOBuilder setvehiclenumber(String vehiclenumber) {
            this.vehiclenumber = vehiclenumber;
            return this;
        }
        public VehicleDTOBuilder setvehicleseatcount(Integer vehicleseatcount) {
            this.vehicleseatcount = vehicleseatcount;
            return this;
        }
        public VehicleDTOBuilder setEnginetype(EngineType enginetype) {
            this.enginetype = enginetype;
            return this;
        }
        public VehicleDTOBuilder setvehiclerating(Integer vehiclerating) {
            this.vehiclerating = vehiclerating;
            return this;
        }


        public VehicleDTO createVehicleDTO()
        {
            return new VehicleDTO(id, vehiclenumber, vehicleseatcount, enginetype,vehiclerating);
        }

    }

}

My DTO has an Enum type called EngineType

public enum EngineType {
    ELECTRIC, DIESEL
}

My controller looks like this

@PostMapping
    @ResponseStatus(HttpStatus.CREATED)
    public VehicleDTO addvehicle(@Valid @RequestBody VehicleDTO vehicleDTO) 
    {
        VehicleDO vehicleDO = Mapper.VehicleDO(vehicleDTO);
        return Mapper.makeVehicleDTO(Service.addvehicle(vehicleDO));
    }

Answer 1

I faced this error when I used Lombok's @Builder and @Data annotations together on a POJO class that is used for connecting to an API (either for consuming or for providing response)

I removed the @Builder annotation and then it is working fine