Configuring ObjectMapper in Spring

Question

my goal is to configure the objectMapper in the way that it only serialises element which are annotated with @JsonProperty.

In order to do

Answer 1

If you want to add custom ObjectMapper for registering custom serializers, try my answer.

In my case (Spring 3.2.4 and Jackson 2.3.1), XML configuration for custom serializer:

was in unexplained way overwritten back to default by something.

This worked for me:

CustomObject.java

@JsonSerialize(using = CustomObjectSerializer.class)
public class CustomObject {

    private Long value;

    public Long getValue() {
        return value;
    }

    public void setValue(Long value) {
        this.value = value;
    }
}

CustomObjectSerializer.java

public class CustomObjectSerializer extends JsonSerializer {

    @Override
    public void serialize(CustomObject value, JsonGenerator jgen,
        SerializerProvider provider) throws IOException,JsonProcessingException {
        jgen.writeStartObject();
        jgen.writeNumberField("y", value.getValue());
        jgen.writeEndObject();
    }

    @Override
    public Class handledType() {
        return CustomObject.class;
    }
}

No XML configuration ((...)) is needed in my solution.