NullPointerException in ResolvedRecursiveType.getBindings

[remal]

Versions:
jackson-databind: 2.9.9.2
Java: 8

I have Jackson module like this:

import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.TreeNode;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.Module;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.module.SimpleModule;

public class TreeNodeTypeMappingModule extends SimpleModule {
    {
        addAbstractTypeMapping(TreeNode.class, JsonNode.class);
    }
}

When I'm trying to deserialize JSON into TreeNode, I'm getting this exception:

java.lang.NullPointerException
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.type.ResolvedRecursiveType.getBindings(ResolvedRecursiveType.java:42)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.type.TypeFactory._fromAny(TypeFactory.java:1243)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.type.TypeFactory._fromParamType(TypeFactory.java:1452)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.type.TypeFactory._fromAny(TypeFactory.java:1221)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.type.TypeFactory._resolveSuperInterfaces(TypeFactory.java:1367)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.type.TypeFactory._fromClass(TypeFactory.java:1314)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.type.TypeFactory.constructSpecializedType(TypeFactory.java:364)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.module.SimpleAbstractTypeResolver.findTypeMapping(SimpleAbstractTypeResolver.java:80)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BasicDeserializerFactory._mapAbstractType2(BasicDeserializerFactory.java:230)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BasicDeserializerFactory.mapAbstractType(BasicDeserializerFactory.java:205)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.DeserializerCache._createDeserializer(DeserializerCache.java:322)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.DeserializerCache._createAndCache2(DeserializerCache.java:264)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.DeserializerCache._createAndCacheValueDeserializer(DeserializerCache.java:244)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.DeserializerCache.findValueDeserializer(DeserializerCache.java:142)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationContext.findRootValueDeserializer(DeserializationContext.java:477)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper._findRootDeserializer(ObjectMapper.java:4191)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper._readMapAndClose(ObjectMapper.java:4006)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper.readValue(ObjectMapper.java:3043)
        at ....................

[benjamin-ross]

This issue is covered by: #2395

[cowtowncoder]

First of all, thank you for reporting this. And second, yes, this looks like a dup of #2395.
Unfortunately only observable when a module is included that sets TypeModifier (and resolved a recursive type variable), which is why test suite of jackson-databind did not catch it -- and secondly, because micro-patch only built of jackson-databind, test suites of modules that would have caught it (java8), were not exercised either.