Describe your Issue
As of Jackson 2.x, DeserializationFeature. FAIL_ON_NULL_FOR_PRIMITIVES defaults to false, allowing coercion from JSON null into Java int, long and so on.
For some users -- and especially on "low null" languages like Kotlin -- such coercion is rarely expected, so suggestion was made to change the default.
No decision is yet made: discussion for helping decision is here:
FasterXML/jackson-future-ideas#79
this issue is placeholder until decision is made.