Upgrading Jackson, Guice, Guava and jsonassert

[a1shadows]

Fixes Issue

• Which issue or ticket was(will be) fixed in this PR?
  partially fixes Upgrade the libraries and make it compatible with Java8 #607
  resolves Bump com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind from 2.10.0 to 2.12.7.1 #642

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Motivation and Context

Notable changes include

1. adding null checks to JsonNodes because recent Jackson versions deserialize null values to Java null instead of Jackson NullNode
2. Moving from javax.inject to jakarta.inject with latest Guice version

Checklist:

• Unit tests added

• Integration tests added

• Test names are meaningful

• Feature manually tested

• Branch build passed

• No 'package.*' in the imports

• Relevant Wiki page updated with clear instruction for the end user

  • Not applicable. This was only a refactor change, no functional or behaviour changes were introduced

• Http test added to http-testing module(if applicable) ?

  • Not applicable. The changes did not affect HTTP automation flow

• Kafka test added to kafka-testing module(if applicable) ?

  • Not applicable. The changes did not affect Kafka automation flow

[a1shadows]

@authorjapps Can you review this? There are a lot of small changes with this upgrade

[baulea]

@a1shadows With #638 junit was upgraded from 4.12 to 4.13.2. This recent PR #641 contains a downgrade to 4.12 again. Would you please change that?

[a1shadows]

@a1shadows With #638 junit was upgraded from 4.12 to 4.13.2. This recent PR #641 contains a downgrade to 4.12 again. Would you please change that?

@baulea Done

[authorjapps]

Looks Good. CI also Green 🟢