Jakarta - EE 10 - RestAssured not supporting JSON-B 3.0

[agoncal]

Describe the bug

With Quarkus 3.0.0.Alpha1, when we use the ObjectMapperType.JSONB in a RestAssured test, we get a NoClassDefFoundError because it looks for the old javax/json/bind/Jsonb package and not the new one jakarta/json/bind.

    given()
      .body(customer, ObjectMapperType.JSONB)
      .header(CONTENT_TYPE, APPLICATION_JSON)
      .header(ACCEPT, APPLICATION_JSON).
    when()
      .post("/customers").
    then()
      .statusCode(201);

RestAssured 5.2.0 still does not support it. See: https://github.com/rest-assured/rest-assured/issues/1651

Relates to https://github.com/quarkusio/quarkus/issues/13459

Expected behavior

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Actual behavior

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GraalVM version (if different from Java)

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Quarkus version or git rev

3.0.0.Alpha1

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[quarkus-bot[bot]]

/cc @gsmet, @manovotn, @maxandersen, @radcortez, @sanne

[gsmet]

Yeah. We will have to live with it until REST Assured provides a Jakarta-compatible version.

I will document it but I think we can close it. We will update REST Assured when available.

[maxandersen]

@gsmet if we close these is there another way to find list of dependencies/blockers we have identified thus far that are still open?

[gsmet]

Not really. Let's keep it open then. I wouldn't call it a blocker really but yeah better have it in mind.

[geoand]

Is this still an issue?

[gsmet]

AFAIK, yes.

[geoand]

kk, thanks

[agoncal]

Yes, still happening in Quarkus 3 Alpha 2 as nothing has changed on the RestAssured side

[gsmet]

I started working on that upstream and I will see if I can come up with an acceptable solution.

[konradrenner]

possible workaround which I tested: using quarkus-resteasy-reactive-jackson instead of quarkus-resteasy-reactive-jsonb (the jackson plugin can handle jsonb annotations).

But it would be nice if the jsonb plugin is working again with restassured, because otherwise it can quickly happen that a mixture of jackson and jsonb annotations is used in an application.

[gian1200]

What is the impact of implementing that workaround? Does it means that quarkus-resteasy-reactive-jackson is importing jsonb annotations? Is that supposed to happen?

[erik-wramner]

We have a fairly large amount of JSON-B adapters and really need the tests to use JSON-B, which I solved in https://github.com/quarkusio/quarkus/issues/13459#issuecomment-1274494346. Now, when we are upgrading to 3.2, this hits us hard. I would be fairly uncomfortable running a different JSON library in test than in the released version and we originally switched from Jackson to JSON-B because Jackson lacked features we need.

Any idea how we can fix or work around this? I might help with coding if needed, though I have no experience with the Quarkus code base.

[gian1200]

I believe the change should be done in RestAssured (https://github.com/rest-assured/rest-assured/issues/1651)

Not sure if it's only to update the import references, or if there is anything else that should be done. I tried to contribute, but wasn't able to compile the project (I'm not versed on Groovy) and couldn't give much time to solve my environment issue.

[gsmet]

It’s more complex than that. I have a branch somewhere with some preliminary work but didn’t have time to finish it yet.

[erik-wramner]

Right. I think we will pick a few tests and rewrite them without RestAssured to see if we can get them to work and how much effort it takes.

[gian1200]

Given that Quarkus 2.x EoL is going to be soon (this year as far as I've read), is there any official/recommended action to take when migrating to Quarkus 3.0?

[hakdogan]

As far as I understand this is still an issue for version 3.4.3 because in my test case, I am getting the error.

[SaddexProductions]

Given that Quarkus 2.x EoL is going to be soon (this year as far as I've read), is there any official/recommended action to take when migrating to Quarkus 3.0?

This is a major blocker for my team since all our RestAssured-tests use JSON-B. We have so far resisted to migrate to Quarkus 3 because of this, and I dread when we will have to do anyway. If this can't be fixed, I would also request a migration guide in this case.

[gastaldi]

This issue depends on:

• https://github.com/rest-assured/rest-assured/issues/1651

[marufmax]

+1 having the same issue

[gian1200]

Question:

Given that JSONB is still not supported, is this a valid workaround with Jackson?

1. Update to Quarkus 3 with recommended command
2. In pom.xml, replace all ...-jsonb with ...-jackson (e.g. quarkus-resteasy-reactive-jsonb to quarkus-resteasy-reactive-jackson)
3. In the tests, replace ObjectMapperType.JSONB with ObjectMapperType.JACKSON_2
4. (Optional) Replace jsonb annotations (JsonbTransient, JsonbProperty, JsonbDateFormat) with Jacksons (JsonbTransient, JsonbProperty, JsonFormat)
5. (Optional) Update any custom JSONB code

Should I consider something else?

What's the difference between JACKSON_1 and JACKSON_2?