5 Jackson Configuration Changes That Silently Break Your Microservices
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TL;DR: Your service compiles. Your unit tests pass. Your integration tests are green. But a single line in your ObjectMapper configuration just changed what every outgoing HTTP request looks like. The downstream service cannot parse the payload anymore, and you will find out in production. Here are five Jackson configuration changes that cause this, with exact before/after JSON for each.
