2 Replies Latest reply on May 5, 2016 6:39 PM by ctomc

    Problem with excluding built-in jackson provider

    arash1988
    arash1988 Jan 27, 2014 8:07 PM

      Hello everybody,

       

      I am developing a straightforward maven-based JavaEE application in IntelliJ IDEA, and obviously I would like to use Wildfly 8 for both development and production. I simply need to expose some entities through some RESTful web services. Those entities have bidirectional relationships, which leads to a loop when they are going to be serialized into JSON.

       

      Newer versions of Jackson are able to handle this kind of situation with a special annotation. To get that to work, I need to exclude Wildfly's built-in JSON serializer / jackson provider / whatever it is and use the newer version that comes bundled with my application. I have followed the instructions I have found on the web and came up with this jboss-deployment-structure.xml file:

       

      <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

      <jboss-deployment-structure>

          <deployment>

              <exclusions>

                  <module name="org.codehaus.jackson.jackson-jaxrs" />

                  <module name="org.codehaus.jackson.jackson-core-asl" />

                  <module name="org.codehaus.jackson.jackson-mapper-asl" />

                  <module name="org.codehaus.jackson.jackson-xc" />

              </exclusions>

          </deployment>

      </jboss-deployment-structure>

       

      The problem is, it doesn't work. Even when I set my pom.xml to something like this:

       

      <dependencies>

              <dependency>

                  <groupId>javax</groupId>

                  <artifactId>javaee-api</artifactId>

                  <version>7.0</version>

                  <scope>provided</scope>

              </dependency>

              <dependency>

                  <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>

                  <artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>

                  <version>2.3.1</version>

                  <scope>provided</scope>

              </dependency>

              <dependency>

                  <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>

                  <artifactId>jackson-annotations</artifactId>

                  <version>2.3.0</version>

                  <scope>provided</scope>

              </dependency>

              <dependency>

                  <groupId>org.jboss.resteasy</groupId>

                  <artifactId>resteasy-jackson2-provider</artifactId>

                  <version>3.0.6.Final</version>

                  <scope>provided</scope>

              </dependency>

          </dependencies>

       

      which clearly indicates that nothing should come bundled with my application, I still get this StackOverflowError (caused by the infinite loop) which roots in org.codehaus.jackson package. This is turn means that built-in version of Jackson is still in the works and is not excluded. How can I fix this?

       

      Thanks in advance.