How to tell Jackson to ignore a field during serialization if its value is null?

Question

How can Jackson be configured to ignore a field value during serialization if that field\'s value is null.

For example:

public class SomeClass {
            


        

Answer 1

This Will work in Spring boot 2.0.3+ and Jackson 2.0+

import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonInclude;

@JsonInclude(JsonInclude.Include.NON_NULL)
public class ApiDTO
{
    // your class variable and 
    // methods
}