On 06.04.15 20:36, Romain Manni-Bucau wrote:
> The proposed default mapping strategy is fail fast with strict (in one
> way) correspondence. I intend to propose customization which can
> change this behavior.
>
> It would be helpful to hear some other opinions on this topic.
>
> it is super common to map a sub tree of the whole JSon (check github
> rest endpoints for instance, you never use everything) so by default I
> think it should deserialize what it can. All missing mapping should be
> ignored. That is also what do (almost) all mappers - including jaxb -
> AFAIK.
I agree, this also corresponds with I-JSON RFC 7493 4.2 Must-Ignore
policy. My proposal will be to follow I-JSON (there are few small other
areas where we differ in defaults) for the default behaviour of
marshalling/unmarshalling where applicable.
MartiNG