No, unfortunately in this case I'd suggest you using `disable()` (or
`configure(MapperFeature)` but that seems deprecated as well).
It will not be removed until Jackson 3.0.
This is bit unfortunately as only 3.x has methods that would work in
your case: basically there is method `rebuild()` that can be called on
an
existing ObjectMapper, to allow construction of a new mapper with
different configuration.
This is unfortunately something that cannot be implemented reliably in
2.x so the only mechanism is the deprecated method.
-+ Tatu +-