Java: Deserialize a json to object in rest template using "@class" in json -SpringBoot

I have to instantiate a class which extends the abstract class from JSON using information in @class as shown below.

"name": {
  "health": "xxx",
  "animal": {
    "_class": "com.example.Dog",
    "height" : "20"
    "color" : "white"
  }
},

Here the abstract class is animal and dog extends the animal class. So using the information in @class, can we instantiate dog directly. Also this is the response I am getting in restTemplate

ResponseEntity<List<SomeListName>> response = restTemplate.exchange("http://ift.tt/1dBuJPs", HttpMethod.GET, request, responseType);

The following error is coming when this line is executed. Since the POJO classes are auto-generated, I cannot use annotations like @JsonTypeInfo

I am using Spring boot and maven. This error is coming in console.

Could not read JSON: Can not construct instance of "MyPOJO", problem: abstract types either need to be mapped to concrete types, have custom deserializer, or be instantiated with additional type information