FasterXML / FasterXML/jackson-databind
Automatically detect target type (`Class`) to deserialize to
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Description
### Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Currently to deserialize object in ObjectMapper we use below syntax -
```
ObjectMapper m = new ObjectMapper();
final String JSON = "{ \"x\" : 3 }";
Bean bean = m.readValue(JSON, Bean.class);
```
Can ObjectMapper automatically detect the class to be deserialized based on the return type?
This is already implemented in Mockito https://github.com/mockito/mockito/pull/2779
### Describe the solution you'd like
Below method can be added in ObjectMapper class to detect class automatically.
```
public T readValue(String content, T... reified) throws JsonProcessingException {
if (reified.length > 0) {
throw new IllegalArgumentException("Please don't pass any values here. Java will detect class automatically.");
}
return readValue(content, _typeFactory.constructType(getClassOf(reified)));
}
```
### Usage example
```
ObjectMapper m = new ObjectMapper();
final String JSON = "{ \"x\" : 3 }";
Bean bean = m.readValue(JSON);
```
### Additional context
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