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com.fasterxml.jackson.core">JsonProcessingException</a></pre> 333<div class="block"><strong>Description copied from class: <code><a href="../../../../../com/fasterxml/jackson/databind/node/BaseJsonNode.html#serialize(com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonGenerator, com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.SerializerProvider)">BaseJsonNode</a></code></strong></div> 334<div class="block">Method called to serialize node instances using given generator.</div> 335<dl> 336<dt><strong>Specified by:</strong></dt> 337<dd><code><a href="../../../../../com/fasterxml/jackson/databind/JsonSerializable.html#serialize(com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonGenerator, com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.SerializerProvider)">serialize</a></code> in interface <code><a href="../../../../../com/fasterxml/jackson/databind/JsonSerializable.html" title="interface in com.fasterxml.jackson.databind">JsonSerializable</a></code></dd> 338<dt><strong>Specified by:</strong></dt> 339<dd><code><a 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