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[BUG][KOTLIN] Jackson3 option does not discover modules like Jackson2 does

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Description

Serializer generated with useJackson3: true is different from the one generated for Jackson 2: it does not load modules.

Any third-party Jackson 3 module on the classpath is silently ignored. Concrete case: org.openapitools:jackson-databind-nullable:0.2.11 ships META-INF/services/tools.jackson.databind.JacksonModule → JsonNullableJackson3Module, which never gets registered, so JsonNullable fields serialize/deserialize wrongly

openapi-generator version

7.25.0; not a regression, rather a bug in a new feature added in #24709

OpenAPI declaration file content or url

N/A (the bug is in the infrastructure code, not in models)

Generation Details
eneratorName: kotlin
  configOptions: 
    library: jvm-spring-restclient
    serializationLibrary: jackson
    useSpringBoot3: true
    useSpringBoot4: true
    useJackson3: true
Steps to reproduce

Open <pkg>/infrastructure/Serializer.kt

Actual:

 val jacksonObjectMapper: JsonMapper = jsonMapper {
      addModule(kotlinModule())
      ...
  }

Expected: parity with the Jackson 2 output, which is generated from the same template with
useJackson3: false

 val jacksonObjectMapper: ObjectMapper = jacksonObjectMapper()
      .findAndRegisterModules()
      ...
Related issues/PRs

#24709

Suggest a fix

Change kotlin-client/jvm-common/infrastructure/Serializer.kt.mustache; add findAndAddModules() as the first line of the {{#useJackson3}} jsonMapper { … } block.

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Research direction

Start with kotlin-client/jvm-common/infrastructure/Serializer.kt.mustache and compare the useJackson3 block with the Jackson 2 output generated when useJackson3 is false. Generate a jvm-spring-restclient client using the reported options, then verify that Jackson 3 discovers classpath modules such as JsonNullableJackson3Module and handles JsonNullable fields correctly.

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Tech stack
kotlin
Domain
tooling
Issue type
Bug
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2/5
Estimated time
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