How to ignore properties with empty values during deserialization from JSON <p>I'm trying to deserialize a JSON string into a ConcurrentHashMap object and I'm getting errors because my JSON contains properties with null values, but ConcurrentHashMap does not accept null values. Here is the fragment of code: </p> <pre><code>ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper(); return mapper.readValue(jsonString, ConcurrentHashMap.class); </code></pre> <p>Is there a way to ignore properties with null values during deserialization? I know that we can ignore these properties during serialization:</p> <pre><code>mapper.setSerializationInclusion(JsonInclude.NON_NULL); </code></pre> <p>But what about deserialization process?</p>