Jackson and generic type reference

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This is a well-known problem with Java type erasure: T is just a type variable, and you must indicate actual class, usually as Class argument. Without such information, best that can be done is to use bounds; and plain T is roughly same as ‘T extends Object’. And Jackson will then bind JSON Objects as Maps.

In this case, tester method needs to have access to Class, and you can construct 

JavaType type = mapper.getTypeFactory().
  constructCollectionType(List.class, Foo.class)

and then

List<Foo> list = mapper.readValue(new File("input.json"), type);

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