Json: Support non immutable objects

[jdmwood]

It would be great if Immutables could serialise Json objects which are NOT themselves immutables. E.g.:

public class OldBean {
   public String getFoo() {...}
}

@Immutables.Value
public abstract class NewBean {
   public abstract OldBean getOldBean();
}

At the moment, the only way to handle this is to manually specify every old style of bean in the @Json.Import thing.

What would be great is if immutables just falls back to using a standard ObjectMapper to serialise/deserialise the objects which are not Immutables.

[elucash]

I guess it will be a good addition. I've made some experiments on this a some time ago. Back then I stopped when faced some unresolved recursions, but there should be a way out )

[jdmwood]

Awesome - thanks!

[elucash]

Supported in 1.1.0(starting with rc1). The caveat is the current ObjectMapper may not be present in all contexts so sometimes you will need to provide some default coded via Marshaling.setFallbackCodec(). Thank!