Jackson deserialize GeoJson Point in Spring Boot

Question

I have a @Entity model that has a property of type com.vividsolutions.jts.geom.Point. When I try to render this model in a @RestController

Answer 1

The above workaround using JTSModule results in an internal SpringBoot error for me. I was able to solve this issue by making sure the getter methods of my Entity are returning String types.

@Entity
public class MyClassWithGeom {

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue
    private Long id;
    private Point centre;
    private Polygon boundary;

    private MyClassWithGeom() {}

    public MyClassWithGeom(String centreLat, String centreLng, Double[]... boundaryCoords) {
        String wkt = "POINT (" + centreLat + " " + centreLng + ")";
        StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder("POLYGON (( ");

        for(int i=0;i