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 would make that a rendering issue, not the concern of the REST service.

Who's doing the rendering? Let that component format the JSON. Maybe it can be two URLs - one for production and another for development.