Strange Jackson exception being thrown when serializing Hibernate object

Question

Jackson is throwing a weird exception that I don\'t know how to fix. I\'m using Spring, Hibernate and Jackson.

I have already considered that lazy-loading is causing

Answer 1

You can add a Jackson mixin on Object.class to always ignore hibernate-related properties. If you are using Spring Boot put this in your Application class:

@Bean
public Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder jacksonBuilder() {
    Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder b = new Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder();
    b.mixIn(Object.class, IgnoreHibernatePropertiesInJackson.class);
    return b;
}


@JsonIgnoreProperties({"hibernateLazyInitializer", "handler"})
private abstract class IgnoreHibernatePropertiesInJackson{ }

Answer 2

I got the same issue, salutations are here

Avoid Jackson serialization on non fetched lazy objects

http://blog.pastelstudios.com/2012/03/12/spring-3-1-hibernate-4-jackson-module-hibernate/

https://github.com/nessonqk/jackson-datatype-hibernate

Answer 3

You could use @JsonIgnoreProperties(value = { "handler", "hibernateLazyInitializer" }) annotation on your class "Director"

Answer 4

I faced the same issue and It is really strange that the same code works in few case whereas it failed in some random cases.

I got it fixed by just making sure the proper setter/getter (Making sure the case sensitivity)

Answer 5

I had the same problem. See if you are using hibernatesession.load(). If so, try converting to hibernatesession.get(). This solved my problem.

Answer 6

Similar to other answers, the problem for me was declaring a many-to-one column to do lazy fetching. Switching to eager fetching fixed the problem. Before:

@ManyToOne(targetEntity = StatusCode.class, fetch = FetchType.LAZY)

After:

@ManyToOne(targetEntity = StatusCode.class, fetch = FetchType.EAGER)