Since I am going for a brief vacation, I thought I might send a quick update on my plan for getting Jackson 2.12 ready for release. My todo wiki page:
https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-future-ideas/wiki/Jackson-Work-in-Progress should be quite up-to-date and show specific things I plan to tackle. The goal for 2.12 minor version was to combine the shorter development cycle of 2.11 (about 6 months) with more ambitious features of 2.10 (took 2 years), specifically targeting "most wanted" features. No changes are planned for JDK baseline or dependencies. The Big features I think should be included in 2.12 include: 1. Ability to configure datatype coercions (implicit conversions in case where JSON type does not have obvious natural mapping) (https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-databind/issues/2113) 2. Much improved XML module (duplicate-preserving `JsonNode`, mixed content, fix most existing bugs) (multiple issues) 3. `@JsonIncludeProperties`! (https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-databind/issues/1296) 4. Improved 1-argument Creator detection (https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-databind/issues/1498) 5. Java 14 Record support Of these, first three are complete: "CoercionConfig" and much improved `jackson-dataformat-xml` were rather large undertakings (and former requires more work to support by datatype modules); fortunately Baptiste send an impressive PR to implement `@JsonIncludeProperties`. This leaves last two items: for #5 there is a PR and I just need time to think through smaller details, but the basic idea is sound. And then I have to focus on getting #4 done: after `@JsonIncludeProperties` it is probably the oldest "most wanted" issue around, and while the "big introspection rewrite" is still planned for Jackson 3.0, this should help with one specific edge case. Now: my original stretch goal was to get 2.12.0 released some time in September; this would require the release candidate(s) to be released in late August or so. This may be bit tight scheduled, so more likely release will not occur before October, but we'll see. In the meantime, I have struggled mightily with: https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-databind/issues/2803 which is a rather gnarly fundamental problem with handling of cyclic types with contextual deserializers. I think I now know how it is to be addressed, but it will be tricky to implement. There are also a few smaller likely must-have or really-should-get-it-in features on Jackson W-I-P list. Anyway, I hope above is of interest to some of you. Take care! -+ Tatu +- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jackson-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jackson-dev/CAL4a10gAiCr12q__RoHjWmykcHu9ZV0t5TUePCVT2KkQ7-u7bw%40mail.gmail.com.
