I thought I was close, but it seems I am still so far off.I have a base class, "BaseEntity",  that I want to have serialize one attribute for all subclasses.  Let's call the key/attribute "id".  It comes in from JSON as a String but I need to convert it to a more complex object, call it CustomId.  What is the best way to create a custom Deserializer that will handle this conversion for all objects of type "BaseEntity"?  Also, the key/attribute is not a member variable, but rather a key/value…See More

I'm currently looking into the Jackson parser for use in an Android application. The big appeal is the removal of hand written serialization\deserialization code and the talk of how much faster the library is compared to the standard Android parser.However on the tests I've ran I seem to get a massive performance hit when the ObjectMapper is initially called to deserialize a JSON response. Performance improves on each subsequent call. I imagine there’s some form of reflection going on to build…See More