Infinite Recursion with Jackson JSON and Hibernate JPA issue

Question

When trying to convert a JPA object that has a bi-directional association into JSON, I keep getting

org.codehaus.jackson.map.JsonMappingException: Infinite          


        

Answer 1

Also, using Jackson 2.0+ you can use @JsonIdentityInfo. This worked much better for my hibernate classes than @JsonBackReference and @JsonManagedReference, which had problems for me and did not solve the issue. Just add something like:

@Entity
@Table(name = "ta_trainee", uniqueConstraints = {@UniqueConstraint(columnNames = {"id"})})
@JsonIdentityInfo(generator=ObjectIdGenerators.IntSequenceGenerator.class, property="@traineeId")
public class Trainee extends BusinessObject {

@Entity
@Table(name = "ta_bodystat", uniqueConstraints = {@UniqueConstraint(columnNames = {"id"})})
@JsonIdentityInfo(generator=ObjectIdGenerators.IntSequenceGenerator.class, property="@bodyStatId")
public class BodyStat extends BusinessObject {

and it should work.