Jackson @Unwrapped with type information

If you are reading this, then it is highly possible that you know that currently Jackson @Unwrapped does not play nice with type information.

 Actually, in my case the issue was only with serialization. Jackson did recognize my type information, embedded as @type property while deserializing. On serialization it produced something like {:{"a":1}}. But I wanted {"@type":"myType", "a":1}.

Jackson has this issue registered in issue tracker, but it looks like correct fix is too complex. But I still want inheritance with unwrapping :) Here is a snippet that fixes issue.

NB! This code snippet fixes issue, but it's global effect is not confirmed :D

	public class UwrappedWithTypeInformation {
	public static void main(String... args) {
	new ObjectMapper().registerModule(new SimpleModule() {
	public void setupModule(SetupContext context) {
	super.setupModule(context);
	context.addBeanSerializerModifier(new BeanSerializerModifier() {
	public JsonSerializer<?> modifySerializer(
	SerializationConfig config,
	BeanDescription beanDesc,
	JsonSerializer<?> serializer) {
	if (serializer instanceof BeanSerializer) {
	return new BeanSerializer((BeanSerializerBase) serializer) {
	@Override
	public JsonSerializer<Object> unwrappingSerializer(NameTransformer unwrapper) {
	return new UnwrappingBeanSerializerWithTypeInformation(this, unwrapper);
	}
	};
	}
	return serializer;
	}
	});
	}
	});
	}
	public static class UnwrappingBeanSerializerWithTypeInformation extends UnwrappingBeanSerializer {
	public UnwrappingBeanSerializerWithTypeInformation(BeanSerializerBase src, NameTransformer transformer) {
	super(src, transformer);
	}
	@Override
	public void serializeWithType(Object bean, JsonGenerator jgen, SerializerProvider provider, TypeSerializer typeSer) throws IOException {
	if (_objectIdWriter != null) {
	_serializeWithObjectId(bean, jgen, provider, typeSer);
	return;
	}
	jgen.writeStringField(typeSer.getPropertyName(), typeSer.getTypeIdResolver().idFromValue(bean));
	if (_propertyFilterId != null) {
	serializeFieldsFiltered(bean, jgen, provider);
	} else {
	serializeFields(bean, jgen, provider);
	}
	}
	}
	}

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