[Task]: Migrate use of `JacksonFactory` to `GsonFactory` in Google Cloud sources
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### What needs to happen?
In the Google monorepo, security has advised us to prefer `Gson` over `Jackson` due to a history of security concerns. As a result, we've migrated internal sources overall to use `GsonFactory` over `JacksonFactory` from the HTTP Java client.
This is a request to upstream these changes for the Google-related sources.
### Issue Priority
Priority: 3
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Component: extensions-java-gcp
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