Recursive JSON view of an entity with one-to-many relationship in REST controller

Question

I\'m using SpringBoot and JPA to build a REST interface.

Now, I have a strange JSON returned for the list of products fetched from the database. Let\'s say that I h

Answer 1

I know it's a bit late, but adding it here in case anybody faces the same problem. Here is another relevant answer I could find which discuss about similar topic

https://stackoverflow.com/a/3359884/6785908

quoting it here

Jackson 1.6 has annotation-based support for handling such parent/child linkage, see http://wiki.fasterxml.com/JacksonFeatureBiDirReferences.

You can of course already exclude serialization of parent link already using most JSON processing packages (jackson, gson and flex-json at least support it), but the real trick is in how to deserialize it back (re-create parent link), not just handle serialization side. Although sounds like for now just exclusion might work for you.

EDIT (April 2012): Jackson 2.0 now supports true identity references, so you can solve it this way also.