Jackson serialization: how to ignore superclass properties

Question

I want to serialize a POJO class which is not under my control, but want to avoid serializing any of the properties which are coming from the superclass, and not from the fi

Answer 1

You can override the superclass' methods which you'd like to prevent from being output and annotate them with @JsonIgnore. The override shifts the control of property creation to the subclass while enabling its ability to filter it from the output.

For instance:

public class SomeClass {
  public void setField1(...);
  public Integer getField1();

  public void setField2(...);
  public Integer getField2();

  @Override
  @JsonIgnore
  public String superClassField1(...){
      return super.superClassField1();
  };

  @Override
  @JsonIgnore
  public String superClassField2(...){
      return super.superClassField2();
  };
...
}