As was said by others, you can't @Autowired it in directly into your controller.

@Emerson Farrugia's suggestion to create a new instance using

Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder.json().build()

also didn't work for me because the obtained instance was not following the spring.jackson.* configuration properties, which I needed it to.

The solution I found was to obtain the ObjectMapper from Spring's MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter which is injectable.

So I autowired it:

@Autowired
private MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter springMvcJacksonConverter;

and then get the ObjectMapper from it like this:

ObjectMapper objectMapper = springMvcJacksonConverter.getObjectMapper();

This instance behaves exactly as Spring MVC's own message conversion - it probably is the same instance anyway.