Map multiple subtypes to the same class

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From the issue described here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18394819/jackson-polymorphism-how-to-map-multiple-subtypes-to-the-same-class

I've got an abstract class with an enum and I want to use this enum to unmarshalled the class to the correct subclass. That should be possible, and I don't know why it exist this restriction "one-to-one (bijection) relationship"

Thanks,
Didac

[cowtowncoder]

This sounds like a dup of #312?

The limitation is due to implementation; although there is also bit of concern that allowing non-bijective mapping means that round-tripping will not work as expected. That is, for some cases having duplicate classes or ids is an actual error condition.

[cowtowncoder]

Closing as dup of #312, which hopefully will be fixed in near future (most likely for 2.6, but slight chance might get in 2.5).