Jackson deserialization fails after serializing an object using writeValueAsString

Question

Using the com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper class(com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind:2.9.5) I am trying to deserialize an object of the following class:

class MyClass {

    String name;

    MyClass(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }
}

The code I am currently executing is the following:

    MyClass myClass = new MyClass("test");
    objectMapper.registerModule(new ParameterNamesModule())
        .registerModule(new Jdk8Module())
        .registerModule(new JavaTimeModule())
        .configure(FAIL_ON_UNKNOWN_PROPERTIES, false)
        .setVisibility(PropertyAccessor.FIELD, Visibility.ANY);

    String text = objectMapper.writeValueAsString(myClass);
    objectMapper.readValue(text, MyClass.class);

which fails on the last line throwing the exception:

com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.exc.MismatchedInputException: Cannot construct instance of com.pckge.MyClass (although at least one Creator exists): cannot deserialize from Object value (no delegate- or property-based Creator) at [Source: (String)"{"name":"test"}"; line: 1, column: 2]

My goal would be to configure the object mapper so to successfully deserialize the object without using annotations such as JsonCreator or JsonProperties on the constructor of MyClass:

• Is this doable?
• Which configuration I am missing?

Thanks a lot!

EDIT 1: Reply by @Dean solves the issue. However I would like to avoid to have the default constructor also.

Answer 1

The proper way to solve this without a default constructor is to add JsonCreator and JsonProperty annotations to your class constructor.

class MyClass {

    String name;

    @JsonCreator
    MyClass(@JsonProperty("name") String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }
    ...
}