diff --git a/main/src/com/google/refine/operations/row/RowRemovalOperation.java b/main/src/com/google/refine/operations/row/RowRemovalOperation.java
index 3445fadfe..ba2dd823f 100644
--- a/main/src/com/google/refine/operations/row/RowRemovalOperation.java
+++ b/main/src/com/google/refine/operations/row/RowRemovalOperation.java
@@ -33,11 +33,15 @@ OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
 package com.google.refine.operations.row;
 
- import java.util.ArrayList;
+ import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.List;
 
 import org.json.JSONObject;
 
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonCreator;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonProperty;
+
 import com.google.refine.browsing.Engine;
 import com.google.refine.browsing.EngineConfig;
 import com.google.refine.browsing.FilteredRows;
@@ -48,17 +52,17 @@ import com.google.refine.model.Project;
 import com.google.refine.model.Row;
 import com.google.refine.model.changes.RowRemovalChange;
 import com.google.refine.operations.EngineDependentOperation;
+import com.google.refine.util.ParsingUtilities;
 
 public class RowRemovalOperation extends EngineDependentOperation {
-    static public AbstractOperation reconstruct(Project project, JSONObject obj) throws Exception {
-        JSONObject engineConfig = obj.getJSONObject("engineConfig");
-        
-        return new RowRemovalOperation(
-            EngineConfig.reconstruct(engineConfig)
-        );
+    static public AbstractOperation reconstruct(Project project, JSONObject obj) throws IOException {
+        return ParsingUtilities.mapper.readValue(obj.toString(), RowRemovalOperation.class);
     }
     
-    public RowRemovalOperation(EngineConfig engineConfig) {
+    @JsonCreator
+    public RowRemovalOperation(
+            @JsonProperty("engineConfig")
+            EngineConfig engineConfig) {
         super(engineConfig);
     }
 
diff --git a/main/tests/server/src/com/google/refine/tests/operations/row/RowRemovalOperationTests.java b/main/tests/server/src/com/google/refine/tests/operations/row/RowRemovalOperationTests.java
index 375e2aca9..4be80efd3 100644
--- a/main/tests/server/src/com/google/refine/tests/operations/row/RowRemovalOperationTests.java
+++ b/main/tests/server/src/com/google/refine/tests/operations/row/RowRemovalOperationTests.java
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ package com.google.refine.tests.operations.row;
 
 import static org.mockito.Mockito.mock;
 
+import java.io.IOException;
+
 import org.json.JSONException;
 import org.json.JSONObject;
 import org.testng.annotations.BeforeSuite;
@@ -20,7 +22,7 @@ public class RowRemovalOperationTests extends RefineTest {
     }
     
     @Test
-    public void serializeRowRemovalOperation() throws JSONException, Exception {
+    public void serializeRowRemovalOperation() throws JSONException, IOException {
         Project project = mock(Project.class);
         String json = "{"
                 + "\"op\":\"core/row-removal\","