可以使用自定义反序列化程序。

public class EmployeeBirthDateDeserializer extends StdDeserializer<LocalDate> {

  public EmployeeBirthDateDeserializer() {
    super(LocalDate.class);
  }

  @Override
  public LocalDate deserialize(JsonParser parser, DeserializationContext context) throws IOException {
    JsonNode root = parser.getCodec().readTree(parser);
    return LocalDate.of(root.get("year").asInt(), root.get("monthValue").asInt(), root.get("dayOfMonth").asInt());
  }
}

然后使用@JsonDeserialize将其仅应用于Employee中的dateOfBirth字段：

public class Employee {

  @JsonDeserialize(using = EmployeeBirthDateDeserializer.class)
  private LocalDate dateOfBirth;

  //getters and setter
}

测试项目：

public class Temp {

  public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
    ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
    Employee employee = mapper.readValue(ClassLoader.getSystemResourceAsStream("strange-date.json"), Employee.class);
    DateTimeFormatter formatter = DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("yyyy-MM-dd");
    System.out.println(formatter.format(employee.getDateOfBirth()));
  }
}

照片：1980-05-04。