Jackson TreeModel vs Databinding

Question

I am trying to think of scenario to use Jackson TreeModel and Databinding API (Object mapper). When you would chose one again the another ?

Answer 1

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Working with Tree Model

We’ll use JsonNode for various conversions as well as adding, modifying and removing nodes.

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Intro to the Jackson ObjectMapper

This write-up is focused on understanding the Jackson ObjectMapper class – and how to serialize Java objects into JSON and deserialize JSON string into Java objects.

I can only confirm that. 99% of examples I had to serialize Java POJO classes to JSON and vice versa. When I need to change a little JSON I use Tree Model to avoid whole serializing and deserializing process.