How to @autowire some bean into JsonSerializer?

Question

I am using lazy loading with hibernate in my web app.

I would like to load some objects from the database at the parsing stage of the server response

Answer 1

We had the same problem with JsonSerializer and Spring autowiring. The solution that worked for us was to make two constructors. One for Spring which sets the dependency as a static field, and another one that is used by the Jackson initialisation.

This works because the Spring dependency injection (autowiring) happens before Jackson initialises the serializer.

@Component
public class MyCustomSerializer extends JsonSerializer {

    private static IDesignService designService;

    // Required by Jackson annotation to instantiate the serializer
    public MyCustomSerializer() { }

    @Autowired
    public MyCustomSerializer(IDesignService designService) {
        this.designService = designService;
    }

    @Override
    public void serialize(String m, JsonGenerator gen, SerializerProvider s) {
        gen.writeObject(MyCustomSerializer.designService.method(..));
    }
}