Fix #184

Author: cowtowncoder

properties/pom.xml

@@ -20,11 +20,10 @@ configuration files as if there was implied nesting structure (by default using
   </properties>
 
   <dependencies>
-    <!-- for now let's consider databind somewhat optional... -->
+    <!-- starting with 2.10(.4 patch), not optional but fully required -->
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
       <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
-      <scope>provided</scope>
     </dependency>
 
      <!-- and for testing need annotations; but should be available via `jackson-databind` above -->

release-notes/CREDITS-2.x

@@ -93,3 +93,9 @@ Francisco Colmenares (fcolmenarez@github)
 * Reported #179 (properties): `JavaPropsMapper` doesn't close the .properties file
   properly after reading
  (2.10.4)
+
+Jason van Zyl (jvanzyl@github)
+* Reported #184 (properties, yaml): ` jackson-databind` should not be optional/provided dependency
+   for Properties, YAML modules
+ (2.10.4)
+

release-notes/VERSION-2.x

@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ Modules:
  (reported by Francisco C)
 #182 (yaml): Negative numbers not quoted correctly wrt `ALWAYS_QUOTE_NUMBERS_AS_STRINGS
  (reported, contributed fix by dpdevin@github)
+#184 (properties, yaml): ` jackson-databind` should not be optional/provided dependency
+   for Properties, YAML modules
+ (reported by Jason V-Z)
 * (yaml) SnakeYAML 1.24 -> 1.26
 
 2.10.3 (03-Mar-2020)

yaml/pom.xml

@@ -23,8 +23,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
       <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
-      <!-- let's make it possible to avoid databind if only using streaming portion -->
-      <scope>provided</scope>
+      <!-- starting with 2.10(.4 patch), not optional but fully required -->
     </dependency>
 
     <dependency>