Annotations on Java8 default interface are ignored

[freddyboucher]

The following code will work as expected with the real Jackson library but it will fail will gwt-jackson.

    public static interface InterfaceBean {
        @JsonIgnore
        default String getName(){
            return "defaultName";
        }
    }

Find attached a branch to reproduce the issue: freddyboucher@6ac68d2

I also opened this GWT thread: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-web-toolkit/JqHMFcrHKDI

[freddyboucher]

As of latest GWT 2.8.2, we cannot fix this issue because default methods are not exposed in Generator.

I'm quoting Thomas Broyer

This is a known (and on-purpose) limitation; see gwtproject/gwt#9371 (tl;dr: exposing the method like any other would have been a breaking change for all existing generators, which would have wanted to implement the method, unless they are updated to recognize them as default methods; and for static methods it would have really broken many generators which would have tried to override the static method!).
Because we want to encourage migration of generators to annotation processors, there was no pressing need to support it in generators; so generators (and users of generators!) cannot take advantage of static or default methods on interfaces.