From 0b177247859f17c3420b07cd7392d8ed2ce88912 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marcel <marcel@familienarchiv>
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2026 16:26:26 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] feat(config): add jackson-databind-nullable for JsonNullable
 PATCH DTO support

Registers JsonNullableModule globally so JsonNullable<String> in
JourneyItemUpdateDTO can distinguish absent (unchanged) from explicit
null (clear field) on PATCH operations.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 backend/pom.xml                                  |  7 +++++++
 .../familienarchiv/config/JacksonConfig.java     | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 backend/src/main/java/org/raddatz/familienarchiv/config/JacksonConfig.java

diff --git a/backend/pom.xml b/backend/pom.xml
index b01f2362..30fa0719 100644
--- a/backend/pom.xml
+++ b/backend/pom.xml
@@ -253,6 +253,13 @@
 			<version>1.18.1</version>
 		</dependency>
 
+		<!-- JsonNullable<T> for PATCH DTOs: distinguishes absent (unchanged) from explicit null (clear) -->
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.openapitools</groupId>
+			<artifactId>jackson-databind-nullable</artifactId>
+			<version>0.2.6</version>
+		</dependency>
+
 		<!-- Observability: Prometheus metrics scrape endpoint (version managed by Spring Boot BOM) -->
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>io.micrometer</groupId>
diff --git a/backend/src/main/java/org/raddatz/familienarchiv/config/JacksonConfig.java b/backend/src/main/java/org/raddatz/familienarchiv/config/JacksonConfig.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ca027548
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backend/src/main/java/org/raddatz/familienarchiv/config/JacksonConfig.java
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+package org.raddatz.familienarchiv.config;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+import org.openapitools.jackson.nullable.JsonNullableModule;
+import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.jackson.Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilderCustomizer;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
+
+@Configuration
+public class JacksonConfig {
+
+    @Bean
+    public Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilderCustomizer jsonNullableModule() {
+        return builder -> builder.modulesToInstall(new JsonNullableModule());
+    }
+}