Duplicate json property when converting java object to json string using jackson

Question

I have Pojo object, with getAsJson function to return Json string for this object. I use JsonProperty to define json properties in this object. Use writeValueAsString of ObjectMapper to write json string for this object.

import org.codehaus.jackson.JsonGenerationException;
import org.codehaus.jackson.annotate.JsonIgnore;
import org.codehaus.jackson.annotate.JsonIgnoreProperties;
import org.codehaus.jackson.annotate.JsonProperty;
import org.codehaus.jackson.map.JsonMappingException;
import org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper;

@JsonIgnoreProperties(ignoreUnknown=true)
public class LogLikeArticleDetail extends BaseObject {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = -2018373118257019033L;
    @JsonProperty("LikeArticleGUId")
    private String likeArticleGUId;
    @JsonProperty("UserId")
    private String userID;
    @JsonProperty("UserName")
    private String userName;
    @JsonProperty("IP") 
    private String ip;
    @JsonProperty("OS") 
    private String os;
    @JsonProperty("UserAgent") 
    private String userAgent;
    @JsonProperty("WebsiteCode") 
    private String websiteCode;
    @JsonProperty("ArticleId") 
    private String articleID;
    @JsonProperty("ATitle") 
    private String aTitle;
    @JsonProperty("CateAlias") 
    private String cateAlias;
    @JsonProperty("LikeStatus") 
    private String likeStatus;
    @JsonProperty("TimeStamp") 
    private Date timeStamp;
        //get, set....
        //....
        @JsonIgnore
    public String getAsJSON() throws JsonGenerationException, JsonMappingException,    IOException{
        ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
        return mapper.writeValueAsString(this) ; 
    }
}

Now, i get result

public static void main(String[] args) throws JsonGenerationException, JsonMappingException, IOException {
        Calendar calendar =  Calendar.getInstance();
        LogLikeArticleDetail logLikeArticle = new LogLikeArticleDetail("1","2","3","4","5","6","7","8","what thing \"nothing\" show","10","11",calendar.getTime());
        System.out.println(logLikeArticle.getAsJSON());
    }

But the result's duplicated properties:

{"LikeArticleGUId":"1","UserId":"2","UserName":"3","IP":"4","OS":"5","UserAgent":"6","WebsiteCode":"7","ArticleId":"8","ATitle":"what thing \"nothing\" show","CateAlias":"10","LikeStatus":"11","TimeStamp":1352256727062,"_likeArticleGUId":"1","websiteCode":"7","likeStatus":"11","userID":"2","userName":"3","ip":"4","os":"5","userAgent":"6","articleID":"8","aTitle":"what thing \"nothing\" show","cateAlias":"10","timeStamp":1352256727062}

Show me what's occur in this problem ?

Answer 1

So i do follow: how to specify jackson to only use fields - preferably globally

I add

@JsonAutoDetect(fieldVisibility = Visibility.ANY, getterVisibility = Visibility.NONE, setterVisibility = Visibility.NONE)

before

public class LogLikeArticleDetail extends BaseObject

and the result that i want.

So can another solve that in getAsJson() function like:

ObjectMapper mapper  = new ObjectMapper();
mapper.setVisibilityChecker(mapper.getSerializationConfig().getDefaultVisibilityChecker()
                .withFieldVisibility(JsonAutoDetect.Visibility.ANY)
                .withGetterVisibility(JsonAutoDetect.Visibility.NONE)
                .withSetterVisibility(JsonAutoDetect.Visibility.NONE)
                .withCreatorVisibility(JsonAutoDetect.Visibility.NONE));
return mapper.writeValueAsString(this) ;

Thanks for @Sean Carpenter 's question and @kmb385 answer in link above.

Answer 2

You can also do this per POJO using annotations. Add this string to the top of your class you'd like no auto detection on:

@JsonAutoDetect(fieldVisibility=JsonAutoDetect.Visibility.ANY, getterVisibility=JsonAutoDetect.Visibility.NONE, setterVisibility=JsonAutoDetect.Visibility.NONE, creatorVisibility=JsonAutoDetect.Visibility.NONE)

For example:

@JsonAutoDetect(fieldVisibility=JsonAutoDetect.Visibility.ANY, getterVisibility=JsonAutoDetect.Visibility.NONE,
        setterVisibility=JsonAutoDetect.Visibility.NONE, creatorVisibility=JsonAutoDetect.Visibility.NONE)
class Play {
    @JsonProperty("Name")
    private String name; 

    @JsonProperty("NickName")
    private String nickName; 

    public Play(){

    }

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    public String getNickName() {
        return nickName;
    }

    public void setNickName(String nickName) {
        this.nickName = nickName;
    }
}

This will return the properties I've defined and not auto-detect the field names and add them to my returned JSON result.

Answer 3

We can also use the @JsonProperty("Name") annotation directly on the getters to avoid duplication.