@JsonProperty(required=true) not honored during Bean de-serialization

[Yoztastic]

I had hoped that annotation of a field with @JsonProperty(required=true) would cause an exception to be thrown during de-serialization if the field was missing from the Json.

But it appears to be ignored.

Is there a work around?

[cowtowncoder]

No, this is only used for decorating JSON schemas, and deserializer does not make any use of it.
Since handling of annotations is implemented in databind, there is an RFE here:

FasterXML/jackson-databind#230

for possibly adding support; this has been requested, and although Jackson will NOT add general validation of input (that's what Java Bean Validation API is for), simple required check seems like a reasonable minimal check to add.