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

Inspired by Steve, and as the updates for Java 11. Here's how we did the BigDecimal reformatting to avoid scientific notation.

public class PriceSerializer extends JsonSerializer {
    @Override
    public void serialize(BigDecimal value, JsonGenerator jgen, SerializerProvider provider) throws IOException {
        // Using writNumber and removing toString make sure the output is number but not String.
        jgen.writeNumber(value.setScale(2, RoundingMode.HALF_UP));
    }
}