Jackson Glossary: DeserializerFactory
Package: org.codehaus.jackson.map
Jar: jackson-mapper
Role
DeserializerFactory is a configurable component that is responsible for constructing a JsonDeserializer instances for various types. It does not cache resulting deserializers (this is what DeserializerProvider does!), but may have a static set of default deserializers it can return.
Usage
DeserializerFactory is used by ObjectMapper, but configured through DeserializerProvider. Usually it is done like:
1 DeseriaizerProvider provider = new StdDeserializerProvider(new MyDeserializerFactory());
2 objectMapper.setDeserializerProvider(provider); // or pass via constructor
However, starting with JacksonRelease17 it is usually better to add new deserializer providers (implementation of Deserializers instead of creating a separate factory (such as instance of CustomDeserializerFactory which was used prior to 1.7)
Default implementation(s)
org.codehaus.jackson.map.deser.BeanDeserializerFactory is the default implementation used; another commonly used (before 1.7) implementation is org.codehaus.jackson.map.ser.CustomDeserializerFactory which allows registration of custom deserializers.
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