How to tell Jackson to ignore empty object during deserialization?

Question

At the deserialization process (which as I understand is the process of converting JSON data into a Java Object), how can I tell Jackson that when it reads a object that con

Answer 1

Approach 1 : This is mostly used. @JsonInclude is used to exclude properties with empty/null/default values.Use @JsonInclude(JsonInclude.Include.NON_NULL) or @JsonInclude(JsonInclude.Include.NON_EMPTY) as per your requirement.

    @JsonInclude(JsonInclude.Include.NON_NULL)
    public class Employee {

        private String empId;
        private String firstName;

        @JsonInclude(JsonInclude.Include.NON_NULL)
        private String lastName;
        private String address;
        private String emailId;

   }

More info about the jackson annotations : https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-annotations/wiki/Jackson-Annotations

Approach 2 : GSON

use GSON (https://code.google.com/p/google-gson/)