Avoid Jackson serialization on non fetched lazy objects

Question

I have a simple controller that return a User object, this user have a attribute coordinates that have the hibernate property FetchType.LAZY.

When I try to get this

Answer 1

As of Spring 4.2 and using Spring Boot and javaconfig, registering the Hibernate4Module is now as simple as adding this to your configuration:

@Bean
public Module datatypeHibernateModule() {
  return new Hibernate4Module();
}

ref: https://spring.io/blog/2014/12/02/latest-jackson-integration-improvements-in-spring