diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/app/result/ResultPrinter.java b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/app/result/ResultPrinter.java
index 5465fbd..9b1a3db 100644
--- a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/app/result/ResultPrinter.java
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/app/result/ResultPrinter.java
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@
         if (indentJSON) {
             // TODO(tillw): this is inefficient - do this during record generation
             try {
-                record = om.writerWithDefaultPrettyPrinter().writeValueAsString(om.readValue(result, ObjectNode.class));
+                record = om.writerWithDefaultPrettyPrinter().writeValueAsString(om.readValue(result, Object.class));
             } catch (IOException e) {
                 throw new HyracksDataException(e);
             }
diff --git a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-api/pom.xml b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-api/pom.xml
index c872bea..2c00862 100644
--- a/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-api/pom.xml
+++ b/hyracks-fullstack/hyracks/hyracks-api/pom.xml
@@ -93,7 +93,6 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
       <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
-      <version>2.8.1</version>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 </project>