Jackson convertValue with RepresentationModel objects

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I have a class that extends RepresentationModel from Spring Hateoas. I have no problem converting an object of this class to JsonNode but exceptions are thrown when converting back from JsonNode to this class using Jackson convertValue.

And the reason for that is there is a links field added to the object by RepresentationModel and the field is not defined in the class–it’s inherited from RepresentationModel. So upon calling the method convertValue(jsonNode, ObjExtendsRepresentationModel.class), I’m getting com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.exc.MismatchedInputException: no String-argument constructor/factory method to deserialize from String value ('self')

So my question is it possible to make Jackson go quiet and complete the conversion when convertValue method comes across a json property that is not defined in the object class? So far, I’ve tried setting DeserializationFeature.FAIL_ON_UNKNOWN_PROPERTIES to false but this did not help at all.

Update:

public class AResource extends RepresentationModel<AResource> {
    private final String aField;
    private final String bField;
    public AResource(String aField, String bField) {
        this.aField = aField;
        this.bField = bField;
    }
}

...

ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
mapper.registerModule(new ParameterNamesModule(JsonCreator.Mode.PROPERTIES));       
mapper.configure(DeserializationFeature.FAIL_ON_UNKNOWN_PROPERTIES, false);
JsonNode existing = mapper.convertValue(aResource, JsonNode.class);

...

AResource reverted = mapper.convertValue(existing, AResource.class);