quarkus-rest-jackson doesn't support @JsonManagedReference/@JsonBackReference

[nicolasduminil]

Describe the bug

Hello,

I'm facing a strange behavior with Quarkus 3.17.6 and quarkus-rest-jackson extension. A REST service CRUDs a couple of JPA entities. These entities maintain a bi-directional one-to-many relationship. In order to avoid infinite recursion, the Jackson @JsonManagedReference/@JsonBackReference annotation are used.

Trying to serialize payloads containing these entities, the following exception is raised:

2025-01-21 15:41:44,261 ERROR [io.qua.ver.htt.run.QuarkusErrorHandler] (executor-thread-1) HTTP Request to /customers failed, error id:  3cb2f243-8560-4e34-865b-6ffa1b214a3b-1: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot handle managed/back reference 'defaultReference':  type: value deserializer of type com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.std.UntypedObjectDeserializerNR does not support them
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonDeserializer.findBackReference(JsonDeserializer.java:433)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.std.ContainerDeserializerBase.findBackReference(ContainerDeserializerBase.java:104)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BeanDeserializerBase._resolveManagedReferenceProperty(BeanDeserializerBase.java:968)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BeanDeserializerBase.resolve(BeanDeserializerBase.java:566)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.DeserializerCache._createAndCache2(DeserializerCache.java:347)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.DeserializerCache._createAndCacheValueDeserializer(DeserializerCache.java:284)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.DeserializerCache.findValueDeserializer(DeserializerCache.java:174)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationContext.findRootValueDeserializer(DeserializationContext.java:669)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectReader._prefetchRootDeserializer(ObjectReader.java:2450)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectReader.forType(ObjectReader.java:771)
...

Expected behavior

I expect that quarkus-rest-jackson be able to use @JsonManagedReference/@JsonBackReference and to successfuly serialize the entities.

In order to make sure that this should work, I implemented exactly the same test case using Jakarta EE 10 and it works as expected.

Actual behavior

The Quarkus implementation doesn't work and raises the mentioned exception, as opposed to the Jakarta EE implemntation, whichworks as expected.

How to Reproduce?

Reproducer: https://github.com/nicolasduminil/orms.git

The repository has two projects: quarkus-orm which reproduces the issue and jakarta-orm which works as expected.

The README.md file in the repository contains instructions of how to reproduce.

Output of uname -a or ver

Linux nicolas-XPS-15-9570 6.8.0-51-generic #52-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Dec 5 13:09:44 UTC 2024 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Output of java -version

java version "21.0.3" 2024-04-16 LTS Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 21.0.3+7-LTS-152) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 21.0.3+7-LTS-152, mixed mode, sharing)

Quarkus version or git rev

3.17.6

Build tool (ie. output of mvnw --version or gradlew --version)

Apache Maven 3.9.5 (57804ffe001d7215b5e7bcb531cf83df38f93546) Maven home: /opt/apache-maven-3.9.5 Java version: 21.0.3, vendor: Oracle Corporation, runtime: /usr/lib/jvm/jdk-21-oracle-x64 Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8 OS name: "linux", version: "6.8.0-51-generic", arch: "amd64", family: "unix"

Additional information

N/A

[quarkus-bot]

/cc @geoand (jackson), @gsmet (jackson), @mariofusco (jackson)

[nicolasduminil]

Have tried to replace @JsonManagedReference/@JsonBackReference by @JsonIgnoreProperties but, in this case, I got:

 ERROR [io.qua.ver.htt.run.QuarkusErrorHandler] (executor-thread-1) HTTP Request to /customers failed, error id: 66abbcbc-0bff-43a0-a815-96b50bb4717b-1: org.hibernate.property.access.spi.PropertyAccessException: Error accessing field [java.lang.Long fr.simplex_software.workshop.quarkus.orm.data.Order.id] by reflection for persistent property [fr.simplex_software.workshop.quarkus.orm.data.Order#id] : {id=null, item=myItem01, price=150}
    at org.hibernate.property.access.spi.GetterFieldImpl.get(GetterFieldImpl.java:52)
    at org.hibernate.metamodel.mapping.internal.BasicEntityIdentifierMappingImpl.getIdentifier(BasicEntityIdentifierMappingImpl.java:158)
...
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Can not get java.lang.Long field fr.simplex_software.workshop.quarkus.orm.data.Order.id on java.util.LinkedHashMap

Not sure where this LinkedMap comes from as there is none in my case.