Jackson does not support @JsonCreator in combination with builders. @JsonCreator basically says: The annotated method constructs a new instance, passing the JSON value as argument to its single parameter. That does not work for builders, because there is no such method that does it both (there are two separate methods, one for receiving a JSON value, and one for constructing the instance).

However, there is a simple workaround in your case without loosing immutability. Just put @JsonCreator on an all-args constructor as follows:

@Value
@AllArgsConstructor(onConstructor_ = {@JsonCreator})
public class Limit {
    @JsonValue
    String value;
}

You can keep the @Builder if you want to, but there is no need to do so.

The problem is that Jackson cannot deserialize the object value.

My solution was to add the following annotations to my class:

// constructor with no args
@NoArgsConstructor(force = true, access = AccessLevel.PRIVATE)
// constructor with all args
@AllArgsConstructor
// ignore unknown properties during deserialization
@JsonIgnoreProperties(ignoreUnknown = true)

My class ended up looking like this:

@Getter
@Builder
@NoArgsConstructor(force = true, access = AccessLevel.PRIVATE)
@AllArgsConstructor
@JsonIgnoreProperties(ignoreUnknown = true)
public class MyClass {
    private boolean flag;
    private boolean flag2;
    private MyClassA objectA;
    private MyClassB objectB;
}

If you want to read more on why should we use @NoArgsConstructor and @AllArgsConstructor together, here is a good answer.

You cannot instantiate an abstract class, Jackson neither. You should give Jackson information on how to instantiate MyAbstractClass with a concrete type.

See this answer on stackoverflow: Jackson JSON library: how to instantiate a class that contains abstract fields

And maybe also see Jackson Polymorphic Deserialization

Adding the @Jacksonized Lombok annotation to your class got it working for me:

@Getter
@Builder(builderClassName = "Builder")
@JsonIgnoreProperties(ignoreUnknown = true)
@Jacksonized
public class Test {

Per the Lombok documentation:

The @Jacksonized annotation is an add-on annotation for @Builder and @SuperBuilder. It automatically configures the generated builder class to be used by Jackson's deserialization. It only has an effect if present at a context where there is also a @Builder or a @SuperBuilder; a warning is emitted otherwise.

Without @Jacksonized, you would have to customize your builder class(es). With @Jacksonized, you can simply write something like this to let Jackson use the generated builder:

@Jacksonized @Builder
@JsonIgnoreProperties(ignoreUnknown = true)
public class JacksonExample {
  private List<Foo> foos;
}

You can either add an @AllArgsConstructor annotation, because

@Builder generates an all-args constructor if there are no other constructors defined.

(Quoting @Andrew Tobilko)

Or set an attribute to @Builder : @Builder(toBuilder = true) This give you the functionality of a copy constructor.

@Builder(toBuilder = true)
class Foo {
    // fields, etc
}

Foo foo = getReferenceToFooInstance();
Foo copy = foo.toBuilder().build();

EDIT:

I just found a much better solution, add the ParanamerModule to the ObjectMapper:

mapper.registerModule(new ParanamerModule());

Maven:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.module</groupId>
    <artifactId>jackson-module-paranamer</artifactId>
    <version>${jackson.version}</version>
</dependency>

The advantage against the ParameterNamesModule seems to be that the classes do not need to be compiled with the -parameters argument.

END EDIT

With Jackson 2.9.9 I tried to deserialize this simple POJO and came accros the same exception, adding a default constructor solved the problem:

POJO:

public class Operator {

    private String operator;

    public Operator(String operator) {
        this.operator = operator;
    }

    public String getOperator() {
        return operator;
    }
}

ObjectMapper and Serialize/Deserialize:

ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
mapper.setVisibility(PropertyAccessor.ALL, Visibility.NONE);
mapper.setVisibility(PropertyAccessor.FIELD, Visibility.ANY);
mapper.setVisibility(PropertyAccessor.CREATOR, Visibility.ANY);

String value = mapper.writeValueAsString(new Operator("test"));
Operator result = mapper.readValue(value, Operator.class);

JSON:

{"operator":"test"}

Exception:

com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.exc.MismatchedInputException: 
Cannot construct instance of `...Operator` (although at least one Creator exists): cannot deserialize from Object value (no delegate- or property-based Creator)
 at [Source: (String)"{"operator":"test"}"; line: 1, column: 2]

Solution (POJO with default constructor):

public class Operator {

    private String operator;

    private Operator() {
    }

    public Operator(String operator) {
        this();
        this.operator = operator;
    }

    public String getOperator() {
        return operator;
    }
}

The exception is thrown because the number 10 can't be deserialized to a ProductDto object.

Change request body to:

{
  "product": {
    "productId": 10
  },
  "quantity": 3
}

You need a constructor with all parameters:

public SampleRequest(String fromDate, String toDate) {

    this.fromDate = fromDate;
    this.toDate = toDate;

}

Or using @AllArgsConstructor or @Data from lombok.