Spring-Boot 2.1.2 and class com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonInclude - spring-boot

Question

My Sprint boot application is not coming up because it's complaining about missing class com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonInclude$Value, but I have jackson library as dependency, so I think it might be possible some conflict.
SPRING LOG:
:: Spring Boot :: (v2.1.2.RELEASE)
00:22:54.084 [main ] ERROR ngframework.boot.web.embedded.tomcat.TomcatStarter - Error starting Tomcat context. Exception: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException. Message: Error creating bean with name 'formContentFilter' defined in class path resource [org/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/web/servlet/WebMvcAutoConfiguration.class]: Bean instantiation via factory method failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Failed to instantiate [org.springframework.boot.web.servlet.filter.OrderedFormContentFilter]: Factory method 'formContentFilter' threw exception; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonInclude$Value
00:22:55.063 [main ] ERROR org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication - Application run failed
pom.xml (dependencies):
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
<version>2.1.2.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<version>2.1.2.RELEASE</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>io.springfox</groupId>
<artifactId>springfox-swagger2</artifactId>
<version>2.9.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
<version>2.9.4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>
<version>2.9.4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-annotations</artifactId>
<version>2.9.4</version>
</dependency>
Has anybody already faced similar issue?
Thanks

Answer 1

jackson-core,jackson-annotations and jackson-databind jars are automatically added by spring boot.
so you don't need to add them explicitly unless you want to override the version of the jar that are provided by spring boot .

Answer 2

Use the below version for both the artefacts:
<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>
<version>2.10.0.pr1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-annotations</artifactId>
<version>2.9.4</version>
</dependency>
Also, update the maven-compiler-plugin version to the latest if maven build fails.
Jackson has made some changes in the method signature of class ObjectMapper, handle the same if implemented.