Avoid Jackson serialization on non fetched lazy objects

Question

I have a simple controller that return a User object, this user have a attribute coordinates that have the hibernate property FetchType.LAZY.

When I try to get this

Answer 1

I tried this, and worked:

// custom configuration for lazy loading

public static class HibernateLazyInitializerSerializer extends JsonSerializer {

    @Override
    public void serialize(JavassistLazyInitializer initializer, JsonGenerator jsonGenerator,
            SerializerProvider serializerProvider)
            throws IOException, JsonProcessingException {
        jsonGenerator.writeNull();
    }
}

and configure mapper:

    mapper = new JacksonMapper();
    SimpleModule simpleModule = new SimpleModule(
            "SimpleModule", new Version(1,0,0,null)
    );
    simpleModule.addSerializer(
            JavassistLazyInitializer.class,
            new HibernateLazyInitializerSerializer()
    );
    mapper.registerModule(simpleModule);