Spring Deserialization exception in native image with DTO with @ConstructorProperties

Problem

With the below setup:

    public static class PlayResponseValue {
        private final String result;

        @ConstructorProperties("result")
        public PlayResponseValue(String result) {
            this.result = result;
        }

        public String getResult() {
            return this.result;
        }
    }

I'm getting the following exception:

Caused by: org.springframework.web.client.RestClientException: Error while extracting response for type [class com.playtika.services.samples.PlayClient$PlayResponseValue] and content type [application/json]
        at org.springframework.web.client.HttpMessageConverterExtractor.extractData(HttpMessageConverterExtractor.java:118)
        at org.springframework.cloud.openfeign.support.SpringDecoder.decode(SpringDecoder.java:75)
        at org.springframework.cloud.openfeign.support.ResponseEntityDecoder.decode(ResponseEntityDecoder.java:61)
        at feign.optionals.OptionalDecoder.decode(OptionalDecoder.java:36)
        at feign.InvocationContext.proceed(InvocationContext.java:36)
        ... 37 common frames omitted
Caused by: org.springframework.http.converter.HttpMessageNotReadableException: JSON parse error: Cannot construct instance of `com.playtika.services.samples.PlayClient$PlayResponseValue` (although at least one Creator exists): cannot deserialize from Object value (no delegate- or property-based Creator)
        at org.springframework.http.converter.json.AbstractJackson2HttpMessageConverter.readJavaType(AbstractJackson2HttpMessageConverter.java:406)
        at org.springframework.http.converter.json.AbstractJackson2HttpMessageConverter.read(AbstractJackson2HttpMessageConverter.java:354)
        at org.springframework.web.client.HttpMessageConverterExtractor.extractData(HttpMessageConverterExtractor.java:103)
        ... 41 common frames omitted
Caused by: com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.exc.MismatchedInputException: Cannot construct instance of `com.playtika.services.samples.PlayClient$PlayResponseValue` (although at least one Creator exists): cannot deserialize from Object value (no delegate- or property-based Creator)
 at [Source: (org.springframework.util.StreamUtils$NonClosingInputStream); line: 1, column: 2]
        at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationContext.reportInputMismatch(DeserializationContext.java:1739)

When trying to deserialize the object, but everything works perfectly when using a java application (non native).

Initially discovered when using a feign client, but it is reproducible by just using rest template.

Investigation results

At first I thought this was a hint issue, but I checked and they were indeed automatically generated.

{
    "name": "com.playtika.services.samples.PlayClient$PlayResponseValue",
    "allDeclaredConstructors": true,
    "allDeclaredFields": true,
    "methods": [ { "name": "getResult", "parameterTypes": [ ] } ]
  }

I tried adding the constructor as a method hint manually, but that didn't help.

@OlgaMaciaszek was able to reproduce this on this branch. See instructions how to build and how to run

Personally I believe the issue might be with AbstractJackson2HttpMessageConverter, please have a look.

Workarounds

Everything works in either case:

• if the DTO is re-implemented to be a java record.
• when @JsonCreator is added to the constructor

These workarounds are generally acceptable, although would require a lot of effort to implement across multiple services.

Since the constructor is present, the hint for it as well, I believe that native should be able to detect everything just as java would.

Environment

• Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM Oracle GraalVM 17.0.9+11.1 (build 17.0.9+11-LTS-jvmci-23.0-b21, mixed mode, sharing)
• Spring Boot 3.1.6
• OpenFeign 4.0.4

Related Issues

• https://github.com/spring-cloud/spring-cloud-openfeign/issues/966
• https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/issues/39197

Comment From: sdeleuze

This is caused by a missing declared constructors reflection entry for com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ext.Java7SupportImpl, see related Java7Support.java source code.

This needs to be handled on https://github.com/oracle/graalvm-reachability-metadata side, I will create related PR.