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Include Spring Boot's JacksonTester in the test module

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Description

Spring Boot ships JacksonTester (see Boot's reference docs) that's very handy to formulate assertions on Jackson rendered payloads. That kind of functionality is very helpful for tests in Spring projects that deal with Jackson serialization (Spring HATEOAS, Spring Data REST) and it doesn't look like the class is tied to Boot in any way.

That said, it refers to AssertJ as assertion library but there seem to be quite a few themes regarding the integration of AssertJ APIs in e.g. MockMVC already.

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Research direction

Start with Spring Boot's linked testing reference documentation and inspect the framework's test module for existing AssertJ or MockMVC integrations. Determine where JacksonTester would fit and how its AssertJ dependency should be handled; done means the tester is available in the test module for Jackson serialization assertions.

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Assessment

Tech stack
java, spring, spring-boot
Domain
testing
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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