Quarkus PUT body param: error while deserializing subtype inside the supertype object

Question

In Quarkus, I expose a PUT method that allows to modify an Animal, which can be a Dog or a Cat

Here is the method signature I want to have:

@PUT
@Path("{id}")
public Response updateAnimal(@PathParam Long id, Animal animal) {}

I want the frontend to send a Dog or a Cat, that would be deserialized as an Animal inside Quarkus. But when the frontend sends a Dog or a Cat, i get this error:

SEVERE [org.ecl.yas.int.Unmarshaller] (executor-thread-199) Can't create instance

The frontend sends a json object with all the attributes of a Dog or a Cat, and I am pretty sure Quarkus doesn't manage to transform the json into a supertype object.

public abstract class Animal {
   private String name;
   ...
}

public class Dog extends Animal {
   private String dogAttribute;
   ...
}

public class Cat extends Animal {
   private String catAttriute;
}

Example of json sent by the frontend in the body:

{
   "name": "toto",
   "dogAttribute": "dog"
}