How to customise Jackson in Spring Boot 1.4

To customize the Jackson ObjectMapper that’s already pre-configured by Spring Boot, I was able to do this (the example here is to add a custom deserializer).

Configuration class:

@SpringBootConfiguration
public class Application {

    @Autowired
    private BigDecimalDeserializer bigDecimalDeserializer;

    ...

    @Bean
    public Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilderCustomizer addCustomBigDecimalDeserialization() {
        return new Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilderCustomizer() {

            @Override
            public void customize(Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder jacksonObjectMapperBuilder) {
                jacksonObjectMapperBuilder.deserializerByType(BigDecimal.class, bigDecimalDeserializer);
            }

        };
    }

    ...

}

And my custom deserializer, to show how it’s picked up by Spring:

@Component
public class BigDecimalDeserializer extends StdDeserializer<BigDecimal> {

    public BigDecimalDeserializer() {
        super(BigDecimal.class);
    }

    @Override
    public BigDecimal deserialize(JsonParser p, DeserializationContext ctxt) throws IOException {
        ...
    }

    ...

}