Oh, so once again I found out the answer AFTER I posted this question (even though I tried a lot of things before posting).
What I did to solve this was to use the @JsonCreator
annotation. I simply annotated my static Create
method, like this:
@JsonCreator
public static ProtocolContainer Create(String jsonString)
{
ProtocolContainer pc = null;
try {
pc = mapper.readValue(jsonString, ProtocolContainer.class);
} catch (JsonParseException|JsonMappingException|IOException e) {
// handle
}
return pc;
}
And then problem solved.