Jackson JSON Deserialization: array elements in each line

You could extend the DefaultPrettyPrinter and override the methods beforeArrayValues(…) and writeArrayValueSeparator(…) to archieve the desired behaviour. Afterwards you have to add your new Implementation to your JsonGenerator via setPrettyPrinter(…).

Mapper can be configured (jackson-2.6) with:

ObjectMapper mapper = ...
DefaultPrettyPrinter prettyPrinter = new DefaultPrettyPrinter();
prettyPrinter.indentArraysWith(DefaultIndenter.SYSTEM_LINEFEED_INSTANCE);
mapper.setDefaultPrettyPrinter(prettyPrinter);

//use mapper 

If you don't want to extend DefaultPrettyPrinter you can also just set the indentArraysWith property externally:

ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
objectMapper.enable(SerializationFeature.INDENT_OUTPUT);

DefaultPrettyPrinter prettyPrinter = new DefaultPrettyPrinter();
prettyPrinter.indentArraysWith(DefaultIndenter.SYSTEM_LINEFEED_INSTANCE);

String json = objectMapper.writer(prettyPrinter).writeValueAsString(object);

Thanks to the helpful hints, I was able to configure my ObjectMapper with desired indentation as follows:

private static class PrettyPrinter extends DefaultPrettyPrinter {
    public static final PrettyPrinter instance = new PrettyPrinter();

    public PrettyPrinter() {
        _arrayIndenter = Lf2SpacesIndenter.instance;
    }
}

private static class Factory extends JsonFactory {
    @Override
    protected JsonGenerator _createGenerator(Writer out, IOContext ctxt) throws IOException {
        return super._createGenerator(out, ctxt).setPrettyPrinter(PrettyPrinter.instance);
    }
}

{
    ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper(new Factory());
    mapper.configure(SerializationFeature.INDENT_OUTPUT, true);
}