Package com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.introspect

Functionality needed for Bean introspection, required for detecting accessors and mutators for Beans, as well as locating and handling method annotations.

Beyond collecting annotations, additional "method annotation inheritance" is also supported: whereas regular JDK classes do not add annotations from overridden methods in any situation. But code in this package does. Similarly class-annotations are inherited properly from interfaces, in addition to abstract and concrete classes.

Interface Summary

Interface	Description
ClassIntrospector.MixInResolver	Interface used for decoupling details of how mix-in annotation definitions are accessed (via this interface), and how they are stored (defined by classes that implement the interface)
DefaultAccessorNamingStrategy.BaseNameValidator	Definition of a handler API to use for checking whether given base name (remainder of accessor method name after removing prefix) is acceptable based on various rules.
TypeResolutionContext	Interface that defines API used by members (like AnnotatedMethod) to dynamically resolve types they have.
VisibilityChecker<T extends VisibilityChecker<T>>	Interface for object used for determine which property elements (methods, fields, constructors) can be auto-detected, with respect to their visibility modifiers.
WithMember<T>

Class Summary

Class	Description
AccessorNamingStrategy	API for handlers used to "mangle" names of "getter" and "setter" methods to find implicit property names.
AccessorNamingStrategy.Base	Helper class that implements all abstract methods with dummy implementations.
AccessorNamingStrategy.Provider	Interface for provider (factory) for constructing AccessorNamingStrategy for given type of deserialization target
Annotated	Shared base class used for anything on which annotations (included within a AnnotationMap).
AnnotatedAndMetadata<A extends Annotated,M>	Silly little "Pair" class needed for 2-element tuples (without adding dependency to one of 3rd party packages that has one).
AnnotatedClass
AnnotatedClass.Creators
AnnotatedClassResolver	Helper class that contains logic for resolving annotations to construct AnnotatedClass instances.
AnnotatedConstructor
AnnotatedField	Object that represents non-static (and usually non-transient/volatile) fields of a class.
AnnotatedFieldCollector
AnnotatedMember	Intermediate base class for annotated entities that are members of a class; fields, methods and constructors.
AnnotatedMethod
AnnotatedMethodCollector
AnnotatedMethodMap	Simple helper class used to keep track of collection of AnnotatedMethods, accessible by lookup.
AnnotatedParameter	Object that represents method parameters, mostly so that associated annotations can be processed conveniently.
AnnotatedWithParams	Intermediate base class that encapsulates features that constructors and methods share.
AnnotationCollector	Helper class used to collect annotations to be stored as Annotations (like AnnotationMap).
AnnotationCollector.NoAnnotations	Immutable implementation for case where no annotations are associated with an annotatable entity.
AnnotationCollector.OneAnnotation
AnnotationCollector.TwoAnnotations
AnnotationIntrospectorPair	Helper class that allows using 2 introspectors such that one introspector acts as the primary one to use; and second one as a fallback used if the primary does not provide conclusive or useful result for a method.
AnnotationMap	Simple helper class used to keep track of collection of Jackson Annotations associated with annotatable things (methods, constructors, classes).
BasicBeanDescription	Default BeanDescription implementation used by Jackson.
BasicClassIntrospector
BeanPropertyDefinition	Simple value classes that contain definitions of properties, used during introspection of properties to use for serialization and deserialization purposes.
ClassIntrospector	Helper class used to introspect features of POJO value classes used with Jackson.
ConcreteBeanPropertyBase	Intermediate BeanProperty class shared by concrete readable- and writable property implementations for sharing common functionality.
DefaultAccessorNamingStrategy	Default AccessorNamingStrategy used by Jackson: to be used either as-is, or as base-class with overrides.
DefaultAccessorNamingStrategy.FirstCharBasedValidator	Simple implementation of DefaultAccessorNamingStrategy.BaseNameValidator that checks the first character and nothing else.
DefaultAccessorNamingStrategy.Provider	Provider for DefaultAccessorNamingStrategy.
DefaultAccessorNamingStrategy.RecordNaming	Implementation used for supporting "non-prefix" naming convention of Java 14 java.lang.Record types, and in particular find default accessors for declared record fields.
JacksonAnnotationIntrospector	AnnotationIntrospector implementation that handles standard Jackson annotations.
MemberKey	Helper class needed to be able to efficiently access class member functions (Methods and Constructors) in Maps.
NopAnnotationIntrospector	Dummy, "no-operation" implementation of AnnotationIntrospector.
ObjectIdInfo	Container object that encapsulates information usually derived from JsonIdentityInfo annotation or its custom alternatives
POJOPropertiesCollector	Helper class used for aggregating information about all possible properties of a POJO.
POJOPropertyBuilder	Helper class used for aggregating information about a single potential POJO property.
SimpleMixInResolver	Simple implementation of ClassIntrospector.MixInResolver that just uses a Map for containing mapping from target to mix-in classes.
TypeResolutionContext.Basic
TypeResolutionContext.Empty	Dummy implementation for case where there are no bindings available (for example, for static methods and fields)
VirtualAnnotatedMember	Placeholder used by virtual properties as placeholder for underlying AnnotatedMember.
VisibilityChecker.Std	Default standard implementation is purely based on visibility modifier of given class members, and its configured minimum levels.