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jackson-databind 2.1.0 API
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<TD WIDTH="20%"><B><A HREF="com/fasterxml/jackson/databind/package-summary.html">com.fasterxml.jackson.databind</A></B></TD>
<TD>Contains basic mapper (conversion) functionality that
allows for converting between regular streaming json content and
Java objects (beans or Tree Model: support for both is via
<A HREF="com/fasterxml/jackson/databind/ObjectMapper.html" title="class in com.fasterxml.jackson.databind"><CODE>ObjectMapper</CODE></A> class, as well
as convenience methods included in
<A HREF="http://fasterxml.github.com/jackson-core/javadoc/2.1.0/com/fasterxml/jackson/core/JsonParser.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in com.fasterxml.jackson.core"><CODE>JsonParser</CODE></A></TD>
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<TD WIDTH="20%"><B><A HREF="com/fasterxml/jackson/databind/annotation/package-summary.html">com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.annotation</A></B></TD>
<TD>Annotations that directly depend on classes in databinding bundle
(not just Jackson core) and can not be included
in Jackson core annotations package (because it can not have any
external dependencies).</TD>
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<TD WIDTH="20%"><B><A HREF="com/fasterxml/jackson/databind/cfg/package-summary.html">com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.cfg</A></B></TD>
<TD>Package that contains most of configuration-related classes;
exception being couple of most-commonly used configuration
things (like Feature enumerations) that are at the
main level (<code>com.fasterxml.jackson.databind</code>).</TD>
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<TD WIDTH="20%"><B><A HREF="com/fasterxml/jackson/databind/deser/package-summary.html">com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser</A></B></TD>
<TD>Contains implementation classes of deserialization part of
data binding.</TD>
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<TD>Contains those implementation classes of deserialization part of
data binding that are not considered part of public or semi-public
interfaces.</TD>
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<TD WIDTH="20%"><B><A HREF="com/fasterxml/jackson/databind/deser/std/package-summary.html">com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.std</A></B></TD>
<TD>Contains public standard implementations of abstraction that
Jackson uses.</TD>
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<TD>Contains extended support for "external" packages: things that
may or may not be present in runtime environment, but that are
commonly enough used so that explicit support can be added.</TD>
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<TD WIDTH="20%"><B><A HREF="com/fasterxml/jackson/databind/introspect/package-summary.html">com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.introspect</A></B></TD>
<TD>Functionality needed for Bean introspection, required for detecting
accessors and mutators for Beans, as well as locating and handling
method annotations.</TD>
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to generate schemas using serialization part of data mapping)</TD>
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<TD>Package that contains interfaces that define how to implement
functionality for dynamically resolving type during deserialization.</TD>
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<TD>Package that contains standard implementations for
<A HREF="com/fasterxml/jackson/databind/jsontype/TypeResolverBuilder.html" title="interface in com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.jsontype"><CODE>TypeResolverBuilder</CODE></A>
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<A HREF="com/fasterxml/jackson/databind/jsontype/TypeIdResolver.html" title="interface in com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.jsontype"><CODE>TypeIdResolver</CODE></A>.</TD>
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<TD>Package that contains classes and interfaces to help implement
custom extension <A HREF="com/fasterxml/jackson/databind/Module.html" title="class in com.fasterxml.jackson.databind"><CODE>Module</CODE></A>s
(which are registered using
<A HREF="com/fasterxml/jackson/databind/ObjectMapper.html#registerModule(com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.Module)"><CODE>ObjectMapper.registerModule(com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.Module)</CODE></A>.</TD>
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<TD>Contains concrete <A HREF="com/fasterxml/jackson/databind/JsonNode.html" title="class in com.fasterxml.jackson.databind"><CODE>JsonNode</CODE></A> implementations
Jackson uses for the Tree model.</TD>
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<TD>Contains implementation classes of serialization part of
data binding.</TD>
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<TD>Contains implementation classes of serialization part of
data binding.</TD>
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<TD>Package that contains concrete implementations of
<A HREF="com/fasterxml/jackson/databind/JavaType.html" title="class in com.fasterxml.jackson.databind"><CODE>JavaType</CODE></A>, as
well as the factory (<A HREF="com/fasterxml/jackson/databind/type/TypeFactory.html" title="class in com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.type"><CODE>TypeFactory</CODE></A>) for
constructing instances from various input data types
(like <A HREF="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/Class.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang"><CODE>Class</CODE></A>, <A HREF="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/reflect/Type.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.lang.reflect"><CODE>Type</CODE></A>)
and programmatically (for structured types, arrays,
<A HREF="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/List.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.util"><CODE>List</CODE></A>s and <A HREF="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/Map.html?is-external=true" title="class or interface in java.util"><CODE>Map</CODE></A>s).</TD>
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