Serializing enums with Jackson

Question

I have an Enum desrcibed below:

public enum OrderType {

  UNKNOWN(0, \"Undefined\"),
  TYPEA(1, \"Type A\"),
  TYPEB(2, \"Type B\"),
  TYPEC(3, \"Type C\");         


        

Answer 1

In Spring Boot 2, the easiest way is to declare in your application.properties:

spring.jackson.serialization.WRITE_ENUMS_USING_TO_STRING=true
spring.jackson.deserialization.READ_ENUMS_USING_TO_STRING=true

and define the toString() method of your enums.