Strange Jackson exception being thrown when serializing Hibernate object

Question

Jackson is throwing a weird exception that I don\'t know how to fix. I\'m using Spring, Hibernate and Jackson.

I have already considered that lazy-loading is causing

Answer 1

You can add a Jackson mixin on Object.class to always ignore hibernate-related properties. If you are using Spring Boot put this in your Application class:

@Bean
public Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder jacksonBuilder() {
    Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder b = new Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder();
    b.mixIn(Object.class, IgnoreHibernatePropertiesInJackson.class);
    return b;
}


@JsonIgnoreProperties({"hibernateLazyInitializer", "handler"})
private abstract class IgnoreHibernatePropertiesInJackson{ }