jackson serialization / deserialization for fj

[Dimitar Georgiev]

We couldn't find jackson support for functionaljava data structures, so we implemented one (with a limited feature set) some time ago.

Now it's open source and available here:

https://github.com/novarto-oss/jackson-module-fj

It does not currently support all FJ types, but is a good start. There are property-based tests in place which should aid in future development.

Being able to serialize / deserialize seems at the very least like a very common usecase everybody is bound to run into, and Jackson, like it or not, is the defacto standard in Java for doing that.

Therefore, If anyone is interested in hosting this in the fj organization and/or publishing under the fj namespace, let me know. If that is the case, we have no problem changing the license to BSD-3.

Regards, Dimitar