@Jacksonized

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@Jacksonized was introduced as experimental feature in lombok v1.18.14.

Overview

The @Jacksonized annotation is an add-on annotation for @Builder and @SuperBuilder. It automatically configures the generated builder class to be used by Jackson's deserialization. It only has an effect if present at a context where there is also a @Builder or a @SuperBuilder; a warning is emitted otherwise.

Without @Jacksonized, you would have to customize your builder class(es). With @Jacksonized, you can simply write something like this to let Jackson use the generated builder:

@Jacksonized @Builder
@JsonIgnoreProperties(ignoreUnknown = true)
public class JacksonExample {
	private List<Foo> foos;
}

This annotation does not change the behavior of the generated builder. A @Jacksonized @SuperBuilder remains fully compatible to regular @SuperBuilders.

Small print

In particular, the annotation does the following:

Configure Jackson to use the builder for deserialization using @JsonDeserialize(builder=Foobar.FoobarBuilder[Impl].class)) on the class (where Foobar is the name of the annotated class, and Impl is added for @SuperBuilder). (An error is emitted if such an annotation already exists.)
Copy Jackson-related configuration annotations (like @JsonIgnoreProperties) from the class to the builder class. This is necessary so that Jackson recognizes them when using the builder.
Insert @JsonPOJOBuilder(withPrefix="") on the generated builder class to override Jackson's default prefix "with". If you configured a different prefix in lombok using setterPrefix, this value is used. If you changed the name of the build() method using buildMethodName, this is also made known to Jackson.
For @SuperBuilder, make the builder implementation class package-private.