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112<pre>public static enum <span class="strong">JsonCreator.Mode</span>
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134<td class="colOne"><code><strong><a href="../../../../com/fasterxml/jackson/annotation/JsonCreator.Mode.html#DEFAULT">DEFAULT</a></strong></code>
135<div class="block">Pseudo-mode that indicates that caller is to use default heuristics for
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140<td class="colOne"><code><strong><a href="../../../../com/fasterxml/jackson/annotation/JsonCreator.Mode.html#DELEGATING">DELEGATING</a></strong></code>
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142 data value is to be bound into declared type of that argument; this "delegate"
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