Jackson: How to add custom property to the JSON without modifying the POJO

Question

I am developing a REST interface for my app using Jackson to serialize my POJO domain objects to JSON representation. I want to customize the serialization for some types to

Answer 1

You can do this (previous version did not work with Jackson after 2.6, but this works with Jackson 2.7.3):

public static class CustomModule extends SimpleModule {
    public CustomModule() {
        addSerializer(CustomClass.class, new CustomClassSerializer());
    }

    private static class CustomClassSerializer extends JsonSerializer {
        @Override
        public void serialize(Object value, JsonGenerator jgen, SerializerProvider provider) throws IOException {
            //Validate.isInstanceOf(CustomClass.class, value);
            jgen.writeStartObject();
            JavaType javaType = provider.constructType(CustomClass.class);
            BeanDescription beanDesc = provider.getConfig().introspect(javaType);
            JsonSerializer