JsonParseException : Illegal unquoted character ((CTRL-CHAR, code 10)

Question

This can happen if you have a newline (or other control character) in a JSON string literal.

{"foo": "bar
baz"}

If you are the one producing the data, replace actual newlines with escaped ones "\\n" when creating your string literals.

{"foo": "bar\nbaz"}

Using

mapper.configure(
    JsonReadFeature.ALLOW_UNESCAPED_CONTROL_CHARS.mappedFeature(), 
    true
);

See javadoc:

/**
 * Feature that determines whether parser will allow
 * JSON Strings to contain unescaped control characters
 * (ASCII characters with value less than 32, including
 * tab and line feed characters) or not.
 * If feature is set false, an exception is thrown if such a
 * character is encountered.
 *<p>
 * Since JSON specification requires quoting for all control characters,
 * this is a non-standard feature, and as such disabled by default.
 */

Old option JsonParser.Feature.ALLOW_UNQUOTED_CONTROL_CHARS was deprecated since 2.10.

Please see also github thread.

On Salesforce platform this error is caused by /, the solution is to escape these as //.