Jackson: @JsonIdentityInfo Object instead of id

Question

Is there a way to influence the serialization process with @JsonIdentityInfo so that it inserts the whole object instead of referencing the id?

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Answer 1

Like said in the comments and from the links, @JsonIdentityInfo and the Jackson Generators doesn't seem to have an option to enable inserting objects instead of ids.

After more research we finally found this: deserialize Jackson object in JavaScript containing JsonIdentityInfo

This was exactly the scenario we had and we are now using JSOG, which is optimized for bidirectional references and it works like a charm on server and client (AngularJS) side.