Update release notes wrt #3417

Author: cowtowncoder

release-notes/CREDITS-2.x

@@ -406,6 +406,9 @@ Thomas Mortagne (tmortagne@github)
 Jonas Konrad (yawkat@github)
   * Suggested #905: Add support for `@ConstructorProperties`
    (2.7.0)
+  * Contributed #3417: Allow (de)serializing records using Bean(De)SerializerModifier
+    even when reflection is unavailable
+   (2.14.0)
 
 Jirka Kremser (Jiri-Kremser@github)
   * Suggested #924: SequenceWriter.writeAll() could accept Iterable

release-notes/VERSION-2.x

@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ Project: jackson-databind
 #3373: Change `TypeSerializerBase` to skip `generator.writeTypePrefix()`
   for `null` typeId
 #3405: Create DataTypeFeature abstraction (for JSTEP-7) with placeholder features
+#3417: Allow (de)serializing records using Bean(De)SerializerModifier even when
+  reflection is unavailable
+ (contributed by Jonas K)
 #3419: Improve performance of `UnresolvedForwardReference` for forward reference
  resolution
 (contributed by Gary M)

src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/databind/deser/BeanDeserializerBase.java

@@ -1412,6 +1412,7 @@ protected Object deserializeFromObjectUsingNonDefault(JsonParser p,
             return ctxt.handleMissingInstantiator(raw, null, p,
 "non-static inner classes like this can only by instantiated using default, no-argument constructor");
         }
+        // 01-May-2022, tatu: [databind#3417] special handling for (Graal) native images
         if (NativeImageUtil.needsReflectionConfiguration(raw)) {
             return ctxt.handleMissingInstantiator(raw, null, p,
                     "cannot deserialize from Object value (no delegate- or property-based Creator): this appears to be a native image, in which case you may need to configure reflection for the class that is to be deserialized");

src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/databind/introspect/DefaultAccessorNamingStrategy.java

@@ -530,6 +530,7 @@ public RecordNaming(MapperConfig<?> config, AnnotatedClass forClass) {
                     // we also allow getter discovery? For now let's do so
                     "get", "is", null);
             String[] recordFieldNames = JDK14Util.getRecordFieldNames(forClass.getRawType());
+            // 01-May-2022, tatu: Due to [databind#3417] may return null when no info available
             _fieldNames = recordFieldNames == null ?
                     Collections.emptySet() :
                     new HashSet<>(Arrays.asList(recordFieldNames));

src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/databind/ser/BeanSerializerFactory.java

@@ -477,9 +477,9 @@ protected JsonSerializer<Object> constructBeanOrAddOnSerializer(SerializerProvid
         }
         if (ser == null) { // Means that no properties were found
             // 21-Aug-2020, tatu: Empty Records should be fine tho
-            // 18-Mar-2022, yawkat: Record will also appear empty when missing reflection info.
-            // needsReflectionConfiguration will check that a constructor is present, else we fall back to the empty
-            // bean error msg
+            // 18-Mar-2022, yawkat: [databind#3417] Record will also appear empty when missing
+            // reflection info. needsReflectionConfiguration will check that a constructor is present,
+            // else we fall back to the empty bean error msg
             if (type.isRecordType() && !NativeImageUtil.needsReflectionConfiguration(type.getRawClass())) {
                 return builder.createDummy();
             }

src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/databind/util/NativeImageUtil.java

@@ -3,7 +3,10 @@
 import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
 
 /**
- * Utilities for graal native image support.
+ * Utilities for graal native image support; mostly to improve error message handling
+ * in case of missing information for native image.
+ *
+ * @since 2.14
  */
 public class NativeImageUtil {
     private static final boolean RUNNING_IN_SVM;
@@ -20,7 +23,7 @@ private NativeImageUtil() {
      * the static initializer may run early during build time
      */
     private static boolean isRunningInNativeImage() {
-        return RUNNING_IN_SVM && System.getProperty("org.graalvm.nativeimage.imagecode").equals("runtime");
+        return RUNNING_IN_SVM && "runtime".equals(System.getProperty("org.graalvm.nativeimage.imagecode"));
     }
 
     /**

src/test/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/databind/ser/GenericTypeSerializationTest.java

@@ -446,7 +446,7 @@ public static <T extends Indexed<K>, K> IndexedList<T, K> fromJson(Iterable<? ex
     /**********************************************************
      */
 
-    final ObjectMapper MAPPER = new ObjectMapper();
+    private final ObjectMapper MAPPER = newJsonMapper();
 
     @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
     public void testIssue468a() throws Exception