@JsonIgnore and @JsonBackReference are being Ignored

Question

I\'m working with RestEasy, Jboss 7 and EJB 3.1. I\'m creating a RESTful web service that returns data in JSON format.

The problem is that I have a @ManyToOne<

Answer 1

I had a similar problem where my getter function was not named based on the field name, so the json parsing was still happening for the getter. Changing the getter name solved the issue.