implementation 'com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind:2.17.0' Use code with caution. 3. Why You Need jackson-databind
If you are not using a build tool like Maven or Gradle, you must manually download the JAR and its required dependencies to avoid NoClassDefFoundError . Navigate to the Maven Central Index for jackson-databind . Select the desired version (e.g., 2.17.0 ).
Unlike the lower-level Streaming API which requires you to manually parse every token, jackson-databind allows you to convert an entire JSON string into a Java object with a single line of code: