Type id handling not implemented for type javax.activation.DataHandler

[RKSuri11]

Trying to serialize " javax.activation.DataHandler". Gives below error

Caused by: com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.exc.InvalidDefinitionException: Type id handling not implemented for type javax.activation.DataHandler (by serializer of type com.fasterxml.jackson.module.jaxb.ser.DataHandlerJsonSerializer) (through reference chain: )
at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.exc.InvalidDefinitionException.from(InvalidDefinitionException.java:77)
at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.SerializerProvider.reportBadDefinition(SerializerProvider.java:1191)
at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DatabindContext.reportBadDefinition(DatabindContext.java:312)
at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonSerializer.serializeWithType(JsonSerializer.java:160)
at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.BeanPropertyWriter.serializeAsField(BeanPropertyWriter.java:729)
at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.std.BeanSerializerBase.serializeFields(BeanSerializerBase.java:719)
at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.std.BeanSerializerBase.serializeWithType(BeanSerializerBase.java:604)
at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.impl.TypeWrappedSerializer.serialize(TypeWrappedSerializer.java:32)
at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.DefaultSerializerProvider._serialize(DefaultSerializerProvider.java:480)
at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.DefaultSerializerProvider.serializeValue(DefaultSerializerProvider.java:319)
at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectWriter$Prefetch.serialize(ObjectWriter.java:1396)
at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectWriter._configAndWriteValue(ObjectWriter.java:1120)
at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectWriter.writeValueAsString(ObjectWriter.java:993)
at com.ofss.fc.infra.json.JacksonProcessor.serializeToString(JacksonProcessor.java:154)

It seems serializeWithType(DataHandler value, JsonGenerator jgen, SerializerProvider provider, TypeSerializer typeSer) method is not overridden in DataHandlerJsonDeserializer . kindly help with same

[cowtowncoder]

Support for DataHandler is provided by JAXB Annotations handler, so I think issue should go:

https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-modules-base/issues

But fundamentally someone with time would need to add bit more code in DataHandlerJsonSerializer to either add support.

[RKSuri11]

@cowtowncoder can we expect any changes regarding this issue coming up ?

[cowtowncoder]

@RKSuri11 I am not sure I understand the question. If you are asking whether anything is being done to change behavior, no. If anyone has time and interest, I could help get fixes merged, but I do not have time or interest to work with this type at this point in time.

[cowtowncoder]

Cannot reproduce without test case, closing.

May be re-filed with full reproduction.

[cowtowncoder]

Doing #330, however, which probably resolves serialization problem. Would be great to get test tho.
Also not sure how likely deserialization would be to work.