Jackson/RestTemplate Springboot to deserialize an array of arrays JSON

Question

I seem to be quite stuck on how to desearilize an arrays of arrays. I'm quite new to these tools to mess around with JSON files, I was able to desearilize the JSON coming from the REST API of countries ( https://restcountries.eu/rest/v2/all ) but I'm now trying to deserialize this from the Open Sky API ( https://opensky-network.org/api/states/all?lamin=45.8389&lomin=5.9962&lamax=47.8229&lomax=10.5226 ) and it comes with an array of arrays (not an array of objects) and those arrays come with strings and ints.

I have this class:

@JsonIgnoreProperties
public class Plane {

    private String icao24;
    private String callsign;
    private String origin_country;
    private int time_position;
    private int last_contact;
    private float longitude;
    private float latitude;
    private float baro_altitude;
    private boolean on_ground;
    private float velocity;
    private float true_track;
    private float vertical_rate;
    private int[] sensors;
    private float geo_altitude;
    private String squawk;
    private boolean spi;
    private int position_source;
}

with getters and setters

and this one:

@JsonIgnoreProperties
public class SkyResponseObject {

    private Plane[][] states;

}

and this method that does the API call:

    public SkyResponseObject getJson(String parameters){
        return restTemplate.getForObject(URL+parameters,SkyResponseObject.class);
    }

but jackson seems to be throwing errors, have already tried multiple combination of things but can't get it to work, some help would be appreciated:

Example of error thrown:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/fasterxml/jackson/annotation/JsonKey
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.introspect.JacksonAnnotationIntrospector.hasAsKey(JacksonAnnotationIntrospector.java:1080)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.introspect.POJOPropertiesCollector._addFields(POJOPropertiesCollector.java:495)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.introspect.POJOPropertiesCollector.collectAll(POJOPropertiesCollector.java:421)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.introspect.POJOPropertiesCollector.getPropertyMap(POJOPropertiesCollector.java:386)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.introspect.POJOPropertiesCollector.getProperties(POJOPropertiesCollector.java:233)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.introspect.BasicBeanDescription._properties(BasicBeanDescription.java:164)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.introspect.BasicBeanDescription.findProperties(BasicBeanDescription.java:239)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BasicDeserializerFactory._findCreatorsFromProperties(BasicDeserializerFactory.java:328)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BasicDeserializerFactory._constructDefaultValueInstantiator(BasicDeserializerFactory.java:272)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BasicDeserializerFactory.findValueInstantiator(BasicDeserializerFactory.java:223)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BeanDeserializerFactory.buildBeanDeserializer(BeanDeserializerFactory.java:261)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BeanDeserializerFactory.createBeanDeserializer(BeanDeserializerFactory.java:150)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.DeserializerCache._createDeserializer2(DeserializerCache.java:414)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.DeserializerCache._createDeserializer(DeserializerCache.java:349)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.DeserializerCache._createAndCache2(DeserializerCache.java:264)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.DeserializerCache._createAndCacheValueDeserializer(DeserializerCache.java:244)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.DeserializerCache.findValueDeserializer(DeserializerCache.java:142)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationContext.findRootValueDeserializer(DeserializationContext.java:591)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper._findRootDeserializer(ObjectMapper.java:4733)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper._readMapAndClose(ObjectMapper.java:4594)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper.readValue(ObjectMapper.java:3601)
    at org.springframework.http.converter.json.AbstractJackson2HttpMessageConverter.readJavaType(AbstractJackson2HttpMessageConverter.java:378)
    at org.springframework.http.converter.json.AbstractJackson2HttpMessageConverter.read(AbstractJackson2HttpMessageConverter.java:342)
    at org.springframework.web.client.HttpMessageConverterExtractor.extractData(HttpMessageConverterExtractor.java:105)
    at org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate.doExecute(RestTemplate.java:778)
    at org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate.execute(RestTemplate.java:711)
    at org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate.getForObject(RestTemplate.java:334)
    at com.labproject.SkyTracker.OpenSky.OpenSkyController.getJson(OpenSkyController.java:25)
    at com.labproject.SkyTracker.SkyTrackerApplication.main(SkyTrackerApplication.java:23)

EDIT: After doing the suggested in the comment my error is now this:

Exception in thread "main" org.springframework.web.client.RestClientException: Error while extracting response for type [class com.labproject.SkyTracker.OpenSky.SkyResponseObject] and content type [application/json;charset=UTF-8]; nested exception is org.springframework.http.converter.HttpMessageNotReadableException: JSON parse error: Cannot deserialize a POJO (of type `com.labproject.SkyTracker.OpenSky.Plane`) from non-Array representation (token: VALUE_STRING): type/property designed to be serialized as JSON Array; nested exception is com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.exc.MismatchedInputException: Cannot deserialize a POJO (of type `com.labproject.SkyTracker.OpenSky.Plane`) from non-Array representation (token: VALUE_STRING): type/property designed to be serialized as JSON Array
 at [Source: (PushbackInputStream); line: 1, column: 31] (through reference chain: com.labproject.SkyTracker.OpenSky.SkyResponseObject["states"]->java.lang.Object[][0]->java.lang.Object[][0])
    at org.springframework.web.client.HttpMessageConverterExtractor.extractData(HttpMessageConverterExtractor.java:120)
    at org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate.doExecute(RestTemplate.java:778)
    at org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate.execute(RestTemplate.java:711)
    at org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate.getForObject(RestTemplate.java:334)
    at com.labproject.SkyTracker.OpenSky.OpenSkyController.getJson(OpenSkyController.java:25)
    at com.labproject.SkyTracker.SkyTrackerApplication.main(SkyTrackerApplication.java:23)
Caused by: org.springframework.http.converter.HttpMessageNotReadableException: JSON parse error: Cannot deserialize a POJO (of type `com.labproject.SkyTracker.OpenSky.Plane`) from non-Array representation (token: VALUE_STRING): type/property designed to be serialized as JSON Array; nested exception is com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.exc.MismatchedInputException: Cannot deserialize a POJO (of type `com.labproject.SkyTracker.OpenSky.Plane`) from non-Array representation (token: VALUE_STRING): type/property designed to be serialized as JSON Array
 at [Source: (PushbackInputStream); line: 1, column: 31] (through reference chain: com.labproject.SkyTracker.OpenSky.SkyResponseObject["states"]->java.lang.Object[][0]->java.lang.Object[][0])
    at org.springframework.http.converter.json.AbstractJackson2HttpMessageConverter.readJavaType(AbstractJackson2HttpMessageConverter.java:389)
    at org.springframework.http.converter.json.AbstractJackson2HttpMessageConverter.read(AbstractJackson2HttpMessageConverter.java:342)
    at org.springframework.web.client.HttpMessageConverterExtractor.extractData(HttpMessageConverterExtractor.java:105)
    ... 5 more
Caused by: com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.exc.MismatchedInputException: Cannot deserialize a POJO (of type `com.labproject.SkyTracker.OpenSky.Plane`) from non-Array representation (token: VALUE_STRING): type/property designed to be serialized as JSON Array
 at [Source: (PushbackInputStream); line: 1, column: 31] (through reference chain: com.labproject.SkyTracker.OpenSky.SkyResponseObject["states"]->java.lang.Object[][0]->java.lang.Object[][0])
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.exc.MismatchedInputException.from(MismatchedInputException.java:59)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationContext.reportInputMismatch(DeserializationContext.java:1601)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationContext.handleUnexpectedToken(DeserializationContext.java:1375)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.impl.BeanAsArrayDeserializer._deserializeFromNonArray(BeanAsArrayDeserializer.java:376)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.impl.BeanAsArrayDeserializer.deserialize(BeanAsArrayDeserializer.java:105)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.std.ObjectArrayDeserializer.deserialize(ObjectArrayDeserializer.java:214)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.std.ObjectArrayDeserializer.deserialize(ObjectArrayDeserializer.java:24)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.std.ObjectArrayDeserializer.deserialize(ObjectArrayDeserializer.java:214)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.std.ObjectArrayDeserializer.deserialize(ObjectArrayDeserializer.java:24)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.impl.MethodProperty.deserializeAndSet(MethodProperty.java:129)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BeanDeserializer.deserializeFromObject(BeanDeserializer.java:402)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BeanDeserializer.deserialize(BeanDeserializer.java:195)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.DefaultDeserializationContext.readRootValue(DefaultDeserializationContext.java:322)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper._readMapAndClose(ObjectMapper.java:4593)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper.readValue(ObjectMapper.java:3601)
    at org.springframework.http.converter.json.AbstractJackson2HttpMessageConverter.readJavaType(AbstractJackson2HttpMessageConverter.java:378)
    ... 7 more

EDIT2: Forgot to put an example JSON:

{"time":1616687149,"states":[["4b1806","SWR141W ","Switzerland",1616687090,1616687145,8.5609,47.4424,null,true,0,244.69,null,null,null,null,false,0]]}

Answer 1

Add this in ur pom.xml

<dependency>
<groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
<artifactId>jackson-annotations</artifactId>
<version>${jackson.version}</version>
</dependency>