handle null from json with jackson

when jackson deserialize the json into object, some of the optional fields (non `@Notnull`) could get a null value assigned, something like

//JSON
{
 ...
 "field1": null
 ...
}

which would result into

class Payload{

  String field1;
}

where when the payload object being used, it could throw out NPE if the field1 is not handled properly.

The way to handle this properly is through setting a default value during deserialization, something like

class Payload{

  @JsonSetter(nulls=Nulls.SKIP)
  String field1="DEFAULT-NULL";
}

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