MismatchedInpuException is base class for all JsonMappingExceptions. It occurred when input is not mapping with target definition or mismatch between as required for fulfilling the deserialization. This exception is used for some input problems, but in most cases, there should be more explicit subtypes to use.

Example of MismatchedInputException

Here MismatchedInpuException issue is happening because of type mismatch because passing JSON as an array of StudentDetail while deserialization is mapped for single StudentDetail object.

public class StudentDetail {
private int rollNumber;
private String firstName;
private String lastName;

//getter and setter of class
}

import java.io.IOException;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;

public class TestJacksonExample2 {

public static void main(String[] args) {
String json=" ["
+ "{\"rollNumber\":21 , \"firstName\":\"Saurabh\" , \"lastName\":\"Gupta\"}, "
+ "{\"rollNumber\":22 , \"firstName\":\"Abhishek\" , \"lastName\":\"Garg\"}"
+ "]";

System.out.println(json);
try
{
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
//issue is here
StudentDetail student= mapper.readValue(json, StudentDetail.class);
System.out.println(student);
}
catch(IOException ex)
{
ex.printStackTrace();
}
catch(Exception ex)
{
ex.printStackTrace();
}

}

}

MismatchedInputException Stacktrace

 [{"rollNumber":21 , "firstName":"Saurabh" , "lastName":"Gupta"}, {"rollNumber":22 , "firstName":"Abhishek" , "lastName":"Garg"}]
com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.exc.MismatchedInputException: Cannot deserialize instance of `com.fiot.json.jackson.exceptions.StudentDetail` out of START_ARRAY token
 at [Source: (String)" [{"rollNumber":21 , "firstName":"Saurabh" , "lastName":"Gupta"}, {"rollNumber":22 , "firstName":"Abhishek" , "lastName":"Garg"}]"; line: 1, column: 2]
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.exc.MismatchedInputException.from(MismatchedInputException.java:63)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationContext.reportInputMismatch(DeserializationContext.java:1343)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationContext.handleUnexpectedToken(DeserializationContext.java:1139)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationContext.handleUnexpectedToken(DeserializationContext.java:1093)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BeanDeserializerBase.deserializeFromArray(BeanDeserializerBase.java:1461)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BeanDeserializer._deserializeOther(BeanDeserializer.java:185)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BeanDeserializer.deserialize(BeanDeserializer.java:161)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper._readMapAndClose(ObjectMapper.java:4013)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper.readValue(ObjectMapper.java:3004)
    at com.fiot.json.jackson.exceptions.TestJacksonExample2.main(TestJacksonExample2.java:22)

Solutions

To resolve this issue, change the type from StudentDetail to as array StudentDetail[]

public static void main(String[] args) {
String json=" ["
+ "{\"rollNumber\":21 , \"firstName\":\"Saurabh\" , \"lastName\":\"Gupta\"}, "
+ "{\"rollNumber\":22 , \"firstName\":\"Abhishek\" , \"lastName\":\"Garg\"}"
+ "]";
System.out.println(json);
try
{
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
//Convereted to Type as array
StudentDetail[] students= mapper.readValue(json,  StudentDetail[].class );
System.out.println(students);
}
catch(IOException ex)
{
ex.printStackTrace();
}
catch(Exception ex)
{
ex.printStackTrace();
}

}

References

https://fasterxml.github.io/jackson-databind/javadoc/2.9/com/fasterxml/jackson/databind/exc/MismatchedInputException.html

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