Additional change for #962 wrt 3.0

Author: cowtowncoder

src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/databind/deser/BeanDeserializerBase.java

@@ -452,16 +452,18 @@ public void resolve(DeserializationContext ctxt) throws JsonMappingException
         //   only happen for props in `creatorProps`
 
         for (SettableBeanProperty prop : _beanProperties) {
-            if (!prop.hasValueDeserializer()) {
-                // [databind#125]: allow use of converters
-                JsonDeserializer<?> deser = _findConvertingDeserializer(ctxt, prop);
-                if (deser == null) {
-                    deser = ctxt.findNonContextualValueDeserializer(prop.getType());
-                }
-                SettableBeanProperty newProp = prop.withValueDeserializer(deser);
-                if (prop != newProp) {
-                    _replaceProperty(_beanProperties, creatorProps, prop, newProp);
-                }
+            // [databind#962]: no eager lookup for inject-only [creator] properties
+            if (prop.hasValueDeserializer() || prop.isInjectionOnly()) {
+                continue;
+            }
+            // [databind#125]: allow use of converters
+            JsonDeserializer<?> deser = _findConvertingDeserializer(ctxt, prop);
+            if (deser == null) {
+                deser = ctxt.findNonContextualValueDeserializer(prop.getType());
+            }
+            SettableBeanProperty newProp = prop.withValueDeserializer(deser);
+            if (prop != newProp) {
+                _replaceProperty(_beanProperties, creatorProps, prop, newProp);
             }
         }
 

src/main/java/com/fasterxml/jackson/databind/deser/CreatorProperty.java

@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.introspect.AnnotatedParameter;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.jsontype.TypeDeserializer;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.util.Annotations;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.util.ClassUtil;
 
 /**
  * This concrete sub-class implements property that is passed