How to serialize transient fields using jackson?

Question

We use JSON serialization with Jackson to expose internal state of the system for debugging properties.

By default jackson does not serialize transient fields - but

Answer 1

My solution with Jackson 2.4.3:

  private static final ObjectMapper mapper =
        new ObjectMapper(){{

            Hibernate4Module module = new Hibernate4Module();
            module.disable(Hibernate4Module.Feature.USE_TRANSIENT_ANNOTATION);
            registerModule(module);

        }};