[keycloak-dev] Support both Jackson and Jackson 2

[Stian Thorgersen]

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> From: "Bill Burke" <bburke at redhat.com>
> To: "Stian Thorgersen" <stian at redhat.com>
> Cc: keycloak-dev at lists.jboss.org
> Sent: Monday, 3 November, 2014 4:26:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [keycloak-dev] Support both Jackson and Jackson 2
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> On 11/3/2014 10:23 AM, Stian Thorgersen wrote:
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> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Bill Burke" <bburke at redhat.com>
> >> To: keycloak-dev at lists.jboss.org
> >> Sent: Monday, 3 November, 2014 4:15:17 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [keycloak-dev] Support both Jackson and Jackson 2
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> >> Why is 811 a problem?  We can just ship jackson 1.9.x
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> > What about folks that use Jackson 2 in their applications and want to use
> > our adapter?
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> Shouldn't be a problem.  Different 1.9.x/2.x are different packages and
> our adapter doesn't use JAX-RS provider.  So there should be no clashes.

True, so actually 811 is only a problem for admin client java api as it's using ResteasyClientBuilder. I guess we can quite easily make sure that always uses Jackson provider?

As Jackson is becoming old, would it make sense that we swap to Jackson2? Or would it not be possible to do that on AS7/EAP6?

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