When using Spring MVC for REST, how do you enable Jackson to pretty-print rendered JSON?

Question

While developing REST services using Spring MVC, I would like render JSON \'pretty printed\' in development but normal (reduced whitespace) in production.

Answer 1

I had trouble getting the custom MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter to work as suggested above but I was finally able to get it to work after struggling w/ the configuration. From the code stand point I did exactly what was mentioned above but I had to add the following configuration to my springapp-servlet.xml to get it to work.

I hope this helps others who are looking to implement the same.