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

To configure a message converter in plain spring-web, in this case to enable the Java 8 JSR-310 JavaTimeModule, you first need to implement WebMvcConfigurer in your @Configuration class and then override the configureMessageConverters method:

@Override
public void configureMessageConverters(List> converters) {
    ObjectMapper objectMapper = Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder.json().modules(new JavaTimeModule(), new Jdk8Module()).build()
            .configure(SerializationFeature.WRITE_DATES_AS_TIMESTAMPS, false);
    converters.add(new MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter(objectMapper));
}

Like this you can register any custom defined ObjectMapper in a Java-based Spring configuration.