Create a custom Jackson annotation

Question

A project needs to use the following combinaison of Jackson annotations together a lot. So, is there a way to create another annotation to avoid ugly copy/paste:

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Answer 1

I would guess that you could write your own annotation classes

package org.codehaus.jackson.annotate ;

public @ interface JsonProperty
{
      String value ( ) default "_id" ;
}

public @ interface JsonSerialize
{
      Class using ( ) default IdSerializer.class ;
}

...

Compile these classes and make sure that are in your classpath before the original versions. This reduces but does not eliminate the copy/paste.

Then your code sample becomes

public class A {
    @JsonProperty
    @JsonSerialize
    @JsonDeserialize
    String id;
}

public class B {
    @JsonProperty
    @JsonSerialize
    @JsonDeserialize
    String id;
}

I realize it is not really what you wanted, but it is a start.