Different JSON (de)serialization configs on different endpoints using Spring WebFlux - jackson

Question

My micro service needs to communicate with 2 different services over HTTP. 1 has an API contract with snake_case JSON, while the other uses camelCase. How can I configure WebFlux to deserialize and serialize JSON with a certain Jackson ObjectMapper on a set of functional endpoints, while use another one on different endpoints?
The WebFlux documentation shows how to wire in another ObjectMapper, but this applies to all the endpoints of my API. So right now either all my JSON in snake_case or in camelCase. Cant find any resource to solve this issue, but it must be doable right?
Update: to make it clear I want to configure the web server which receives the requests from other services, not the webclient for sending http requests myself. I know how to do the latter.

Answer 1

you can use the #JsonNaming annotation on the classes you want to serialize/deserialize and specify what type of naming strategy you want.
jackson-advanced-annotations

Answer 2

Okay, so this is not the cleaned up solution, I will use this solution from our library, but the basic gist of my work around looks like this:
#Controller
public class Handler {
private ObjectMapper mapper;
public Handler(#Qualifier("snakeCaseWrapper") ObjectMapper mapper) {
this.mapper = mapper;
}
Mono<ServerResponse> returnUser(final ServerRequest request) {
//REQUEST DESERIALIZATION
var messageReader = new DecoderHttpMessageReader<>(new Jackson2JsonDecoder(mapper));
var configuredRequest = ServerRequest.create(request.exchange(), List.of(messageReader));
//RESPONSE SERIALIZATION
return configuredRequest.bodyToMono(UserDto.class)
.map(userDto -> {
try {
return mapper.writeValueAsString(userDto);
} catch (JsonProcessingException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
//properly handle the error here
return "";
}
})
.flatMap(json -> ServerResponse.ok()
.contentType(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
.body(BodyInserters.fromObject(json))
);
}
}
This is the only way I could find to programatically choose which kind of ObjectMapper I want to use for a specific endpoint/handler method for request deserialization. For response serialization, the trick was to first use the ObjectMapper to serialize the response body to a String, and put that String into the response with BodyInserters.fromObject(json) .
It works, so I'm happy with it.