How to specify jackson to only use fields - preferably globally

Question

Default jackon behaviour seems to use both properties (getters and setters) and fields to serialize and deserialize to json.

I would like to use the fields as the ca

Answer 1

If you want a way to do this globally without worrying about the configuration of your ObjectMapper, you can create your own annotation:

@Target({ElementType.ANNOTATION_TYPE, ElementType.TYPE})
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@JacksonAnnotationsInside
@JsonAutoDetect(
        getterVisibility = JsonAutoDetect.Visibility.NONE, isGetterVisibility = JsonAutoDetect.Visibility.NONE,
        setterVisibility = JsonAutoDetect.Visibility.NONE, fieldVisibility = JsonAutoDetect.Visibility.NONE,
        creatorVisibility = JsonAutoDetect.Visibility.NONE
)
public @interface JsonExplicit {
}

Now you just have to annotate your classes with @JsonExplicit and you're good to go!

Also make sure to edit the above call to @JsonAutoDetect to make sure you have the values set to what works with your program.

Credit to https://stackoverflow.com/a/13408807 for helping me find out about @JacksonAnnotationsInside