Spring 4.2.3 and fasterxml Jackson 2.7.0 are incompatible

Question

After migration from fasterxml.jackson 2.6.3 to 2.7.0. This is because public JavaType constructType(Type type, Class<?> contextType) method used in Spring's AbstractJackson2HttpMessageConverter was removed. How to fix this? I am using Spring 4.2.3.

/signin/facebook java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.type.TypeFactory.constructType(Ljava/lang/reflect/Type;Ljava/lang/Class;)Lcom/fasterxml/jackson/databind/JavaType;     at org.springframework.http.converter.json.AbstractJackson2HttpMessageConverter.getJavaType(AbstractJackson2HttpMessageConverter.java:314)     at org.springframework.http.converter.json.AbstractJackson2HttpMessageConverter.canRead(AbstractJackson2HttpMessageConverter.java:146)     at org.springframework.http.converter.json.AbstractJackson2HttpMessageConverter.canRead(AbstractJackson2HttpMessageConverter.java:141)     at org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate$AcceptHeaderRequestCallback.doWithRequest(RestTemplate.java:706)     at org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate$HttpEntityRequestCallback.doWithRequest(RestTemplate.java:770)     at org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate.doExecute(RestTemplate.java:594)     at org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate.execute(RestTemplate.java:557)     at org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate.postForObject(RestTemplate.java:357)     at org.springframework.social.oauth2.OAuth2Template.postForAccessGrant(OAuth2Template.java:242)     at org.springframework.social.oauth2.OAuth2Template.exchangeForAccess(OAuth2Template.java:144)     at org.springframework.social.connect.web.ConnectSupport.completeConnection(ConnectSupport.java:160)     at org.springframework.social.connect.web.ProviderSignInController.oauth2Callback(ProviderSignInController.java:228)     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)     at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:44)     at org.springframework.web.method.support.InvocableHandlerMethod.doInvoke(InvocableHandlerMethod.java:222)     at org.springframework.web.method.support.InvocableHandlerMethod.invokeForRequest(InvocableHandlerMethod.java:137)     at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.ServletInvocableHandlerMethod.invokeAndHandle(ServletInvocableHandlerMethod.java:110)     at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.invokeHandlerMethod(RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.java:814)     at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.handleInternal(RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.java:737)     at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.AbstractHandlerMethodAdapter.handle(AbstractHandlerMethodAdapter.java:85)     at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:959)     at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:893)     at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:970)     at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doGet(FrameworkServlet.java:861)     at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:617) 

Answer 1

Support for Jackson 2.7 will be added in Spring 4.3. See https://jira.spring.io/browse/SPR-13483.

For now you aren't able to use it without providing your own integration classes.

Answer 2

The best compatible versions

1)Spring 4.2.4 works with fasterxml Jackson 2.7.2 or 2.8.4

2)Spring 4.3.5 works with fasterxml Jackson 2.7.0