JacksonMapper for easy json in scala

Dependencies.scala

  
  val fasterXmlJacksonVersion = "2.2.2"
  
  val appDependencies = Seq(
    "com.fasterxml.jackson.core" % "jackson-core" % fasterXmlJacksonVersion,
    "com.fasterxml.jackson.core" % "jackson-annotations" % fasterXmlJacksonVersion,
    "com.fasterxml.jackson.core" % "jackson-databind" % fasterXmlJacksonVersion,
    "com.fasterxml.jackson.module" %% "jackson-module-scala" % fasterXmlJacksonVersion
  )

JacksonMapper.scala

import java.lang.reflect.{Type, ParameterizedType}

import com.fasterxml.jackson.module.scala.DefaultScalaModule
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper
import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.`type`.TypeReference
import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParseException

@deprecated("Use the play json serialisation lib or maybe json4s", "20130829")
trait JacksonMapper {

  private val mapper = new ObjectMapper()
  mapper.registerModule(DefaultScalaModule)

  protected def deserialize[T: Manifest](value: String) : T = {
    try{
      mapper.readValue(value, new TypeReference[T]() {
        override def getType = new ParameterizedType {
          val getActualTypeArguments = manifest[T].typeArguments.map(_.runtimeClass.asInstanceOf[Type]).toArray
          val getRawType = manifest[T].runtimeClass
          val getOwnerType = null
        }
      })
    }catch{
      case ex:JsonParseException =>
        System.err.println(value)
        throw ex;
    }
  }

  protected def serialize(value:AnyRef): String = {
    mapper.writeValueAsString(value)
  }
}