jackson-databind: Nested type arguments doesn't work with polymorphic types

When using @JsonSubTypes/@JsonTypeInfo on an interface with a generic parameter (de)serialising a subclass that wraps it’s own generic parameter in another generic class or interface doesn’t work.

It’s a bit complex to explain with words so here’s a short example:

public class GenericPolymorphismTest {
    @JsonTypeInfo(property = "type", use = JsonTypeInfo.Id.NAME)
    @JsonSubTypes({
            @JsonSubTypes.Type(value = AddToList.class, name = "addToList")
    })
    public interface Operation<T> {
        T perform(T operand);
    }

    public static class AddToList<T> implements Operation<List<T>> {
        T value;
        @Override
        public List<T> perform(List<T> operand) {
            operand.add(value);
            return operand;
        }
    }

    public static class Container {
        Operation<List<UUID>> listOperation;
    }

    private static final ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
    static {
        objectMapper.setVisibility(new VisibilityChecker.Std(JsonAutoDetect.Visibility.ANY));
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) throws JsonProcessingException {
        AddToList<UUID> addToList = new AddToList<>();
        addToList.value = UUID.randomUUID();
        Container container = new Container();
        container.listOperation = addToList;

        System.out.println(objectMapper.writeValueAsString(container));
    }
}

This crashes with the following exception:

Exception in thread "main" com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonMappingException: Class java.util.UUID not subtype of [collection type; class java.util.List, contains [simple type, class java.util.UUID]] (through reference chain: GenericPolymorphismTest$Container["listOperation"]->GenericPolymorphismTest$AddToList["value"])
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonMappingException.wrapWithPath(JsonMappingException.java:388)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonMappingException.wrapWithPath(JsonMappingException.java:348)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.std.StdSerializer.wrapAndThrow(StdSerializer.java:343)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.std.BeanSerializerBase.serializeFields(BeanSerializerBase.java:698)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.std.BeanSerializerBase.serializeWithType(BeanSerializerBase.java:581)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.BeanPropertyWriter.serializeAsField(BeanPropertyWriter.java:706)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.std.BeanSerializerBase.serializeFields(BeanSerializerBase.java:690)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.BeanSerializer.serialize(BeanSerializer.java:155)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.DefaultSerializerProvider.serializeValue(DefaultSerializerProvider.java:292)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper._configAndWriteValue(ObjectMapper.java:3681)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper.writeValueAsString(ObjectMapper.java:3057)
	at GenericPolymorphismTest.main(GenericPolymorphismTest.java:57)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Class java.util.UUID not subtype of [collection type; class java.util.List, contains [simple type, class java.util.UUID]]
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.type.TypeFactory.constructSpecializedType(TypeFactory.java:359)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.cfg.MapperConfig.constructSpecializedType(MapperConfig.java:306)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DatabindContext.constructSpecializedType(DatabindContext.java:149)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.BeanPropertyWriter._findAndAddDynamic(BeanPropertyWriter.java:870)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.BeanPropertyWriter.serializeAsField(BeanPropertyWriter.java:682)
	at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.std.BeanSerializerBase.serializeFields(BeanSerializerBase.java:690)
	... 8 more

If I try work around it by making value into a List<T> deserialisation works but serialisation gives me a List<String> instead of List<UUID> so using a list after perform will throw ClassCastExceptions.