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Optional Support

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java
Domain
api, backend

Research direction

No file or test is named. Start by locating the JSON Schema serialize/deserialize handling and existing @JsonAttribute processing, then verify how required=false and required=true map to Java 8 Optional and T. Done means the mapping works without requiring @JsonAttribute annotations and is covered by appropriate tests.

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Description

testcase-needed

Would be great if there was a way to configure this to serialize / deserialize json schema fields using Java 8 Optionals, so that fields of type T with required=false are deserialized to Optional and fields with required=true are deserialized to T rather than needing to use @JsonAttribute annotations.

Dominant language
Java
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