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Injection when there is cyclic references fails #538

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@WaDelma

When trying to debug problem in my project I was able reduce the problem to this simple case...
It seems that Jackson cannot handle injecting values via constructor when there is cyclic references.
The error disappears when I remove the cyclic reference or inject from either constructor.

com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.UnresolvedForwardReference: Could not resolve Object Id [1] (for [simple type, class test.Test$A]).
 at [Source: {"@id":1,"b":{"@id":2,"a":1}}; line: 1, column: 28]
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BeanDeserializerBase.deserializeFromObjectId(BeanDeserializerBase.java:1042)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BeanDeserializerBase.deserializeFromNumber(BeanDeserializerBase.java:1076)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BeanDeserializer._deserializeOther(BeanDeserializer.java:137)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BeanDeserializer.deserialize(BeanDeserializer.java:126)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.SettableBeanProperty.deserialize(SettableBeanProperty.java:538)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BeanDeserializer._deserializeUsingPropertyBased(BeanDeserializer.java:373)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BeanDeserializerBase.deserializeFromObjectUsingNonDefault(BeanDeserializerBase.java:1056)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BeanDeserializer.deserializeFromObject(BeanDeserializer.java:264)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BeanDeserializerBase.deserializeWithObjectId(BeanDeserializerBase.java:1028)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BeanDeserializer.deserialize(BeanDeserializer.java:122)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.SettableBeanProperty.deserialize(SettableBeanProperty.java:538)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BeanDeserializer._deserializeUsingPropertyBased(BeanDeserializer.java:373)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BeanDeserializerBase.deserializeFromObjectUsingNonDefault(BeanDeserializerBase.java:1056)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BeanDeserializer.deserializeFromObject(BeanDeserializer.java:264)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BeanDeserializerBase.deserializeWithObjectId(BeanDeserializerBase.java:1028)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BeanDeserializer.deserialize(BeanDeserializer.java:122)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectReader._bindAndClose(ObjectReader.java:1269)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectReader.readValue(ObjectReader.java:896)
    at test.Test.main(Test.java:23)
package test;

import java.io.IOException;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JacksonInject;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIdentityInfo;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.ObjectIdGenerators;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.InjectableValues;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;

public class Test {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        A a = new A(null);
        B b = new B(null);
        a.b = b;
        b.a = a;
        try {
            ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
            String json = mapper.writeValueAsString(a);
            InjectableValues.Std inject = new InjectableValues.Std();
            inject.addValue("i1", "e1");
            inject.addValue("i2", "e2");
            mapper.reader(inject).withType(A.class).readValue(json);
            System.out.println(json);
        } catch (IOException expection) {
            expection.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    @JsonIdentityInfo(generator = ObjectIdGenerators.IntSequenceGenerator.class)
    public static class A {
        public B b;
        public A(@JacksonInject("i1") String injected) {}
    }

    @JsonIdentityInfo(generator = ObjectIdGenerators.IntSequenceGenerator.class)
    public static class B {
        public A a;
        public B(@JacksonInject("i2") String injected) {}
    }
}

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