hibernate entity to json

Question

i use Hibernate 4 and Spring 3.

i have two entity.

Book entity

@Entity
@Table(name = \"book\")
public class Book implements Serializable {

          


        

Answer 1

You can use @com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIgnore annotation to avoid a field to be serialized. Thus the getter of that field won't get called.

@JsonIgnore
@OneToMany( mappedBy = "author", cascade = CascadeType.ALL, orphanRemoval = true)
private Set books = new HashSet();