Support for annotating enum values

[m1h4]

Is there any reason why something like this would not be supported:

public enum DeviceType {
    @JsonPropertyValue("DeviceTypeMobile")
    DEVICE_TYPE_MOBILE,
    @JsonPropertyValue("DeviceTypeDesktop")
    DEVICE_TYPE_DESKTOP
}

and now when serialising/deserialising the values in the annotations would be used, but in Java you would use the more Java-like enum names.

Is there a technical issue preventing this from being supported or has no one simply addressed this yet?

I am aware of the more complicated, manual, way of achieving this behaviour using @JsonValue and @JsonCreator with custom from/to methods, but it seems this is enough of a common problem (at least for people that want neatly-named enum values) that the above, elegant, solution would be nice to have.

Would be interested in implementing this if need be

[m1h4]

I'm ashamed I did not look at past issues before posting, I now see that this exact feature was already discussed in January.

[cowtowncoder]

Right, #677 is the original issue I think, so additional comments may be added there. And we should be able to just use @JsonProperty to reduce explosion in number of annotations declared.