Java to Jackson JSON serialization: Money fields

Question

Currently, I\'m using Jackson to send out JSON results from my Spring-based web application.

The problem I\'m having is trying to get all money fields to output with

Answer 1

Instead of setting the @JsonSerialize on each member or getter you can configure a module that use a custome serializer for a certain type:

SimpleModule module = new SimpleModule();
module.addSerializer(BigInteger.class, new ToStringSerializer());
objectMapper.registerModule(module);

In the above example, I used the to string serializer to serialize BigIntegers (since javascript can not handle such numeric values).