Support of Jackson 3

[ruiarodrigues]

Hi everyone,

Jackson 3 has been released and one can see in the migration guide a lot has changes: package names, dependency names and much more. I'm currently working on upgrading to Jackson 3 but I can' use it in the module where the schema validation is used. So it means that I have to use jackson 2 and 3 at the same time until json-schema-validator supports Jackson 3.

Is it in the roadmap?

Thanks

[stevehu]

Jackson 3 was released early this month, and it has a new package name. That means both versions can co-exist together in the same application. As we have a lot of users depending on Jackson 2, we need to be really careful when migrating to Jackson 3 as our action will force our users to upgrade. I am thinking the best time is when at least half of our users have moved to Jackson 3. At that time, the Jackson 3 should be stable enough for production. I am guessing it would be 1 year from now :) @justin-tay, what do you think? Thanks.

[justin-tay]

I already have a branch with Jackson 3, but likely will wait at least half a year for things to stabilise first.

[stevehu]

Let's revisit this topic 6 months later. The worst scenario is to support both at the same time. 2.x for Jackson 2 and 3.x for Jackson 3.