Configuring ObjectMapper in Spring

Question

my goal is to configure the objectMapper in the way that it only serialises element which are annotated with @JsonProperty.

In order to do

Answer 1

I am using Spring 3.2.4 and Jackson FasterXML 2.1.1.

I have created a custom JacksonObjectMapper that works with explicit annotations for each attribute of the Objects mapped:

package com.test;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonAutoDetect;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.PropertyAccessor;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.SerializationFeature;

public class MyJaxbJacksonObjectMapper extends ObjectMapper {

public MyJaxbJacksonObjectMapper() {

    this.setVisibility(PropertyAccessor.FIELD, JsonAutoDetect.Visibility.ANY)
            .setVisibility(PropertyAccessor.CREATOR, JsonAutoDetect.Visibility.ANY)
            .setVisibility(PropertyAccessor.SETTER, JsonAutoDetect.Visibility.NONE)
            .setVisibility(PropertyAccessor.GETTER, JsonAutoDetect.Visibility.NONE)
            .setVisibility(PropertyAccessor.IS_GETTER, JsonAutoDetect.Visibility.NONE);

    this.configure(SerializationFeature.FAIL_ON_EMPTY_BEANS, false);
    }
}

Then this is instantiated in the context-configuration (servlet-context.xml):

This works fine!