Jackson Deserialization with no Type - kotlin

Question

I have a question related to Jackson and polymorphism: is there a way to deserialize a JSON string without specifying a type?
Assuming I don't own this message (e.g., external API) and I have two separate messages that come in at separate times:
{
"responseCode": 200
"responseMessage": "You did something successfully"
}
{
"errorCode": 401
"errorDescription": "Permission denied"
}
And I want to deserialize this message with some data classes that I created based on these messages through polymorphism (see abstract class in next code block):
data class MyDataClass(
val responseCode: Int,
val responseMessage: String
): MyAbstractClass()
data class MyOtherDataClass(
val errorCode: Int,
val errorDescription: String
): MyAbstractClass()
And I am resolving these messages through a function that will use the Jackson Object Mapper to deserialize the stringified JSON payload:
#JsonSubTypes(
JsonSubTypes.Type(value = MyDataClass::class),
JsonSubTypes.Type(value = MyOtherDataClass::class)
)
#JsonIgnoreProperties(ignoreProperties = true)
abstract class MyAbstractClass
fun receiveMessage(message: String) {
val convertedMessage = jacksonObjectMapper().readValue<MyAbstractClass>(message)
log.info(convertedMessage)
/* prints either:
MyDataClass(responseCode=200, responseMessage=You did something successfully)
OR
MyOtherDataClass(errorCode=401, errorDescription=Permission denied)
*/
}
But since I haven't described how to identify the data class (using #JsonTypeInfo), it fails.
To repeat, I am curious if there is a way that I can deserialize the incoming message to one of my polymorphic types without having to specify the #JsonTypeInfo. Or if I must describe the #JsonTypeInfo, how would I do this with no similarities between the two child classes of MyAbstractClass?

Answer 1

I would write a custom deserializer which takes it as a generic JSONObject or the like. Then I'd check if a differentiating key exists. For example:
// pseudocode
when (json: JSONObject) {
hasKey("responseCode") -> // deserialize as MyDataClass
hasKey("errorCode") -> // deserialize as MyOtherDataClass
}