Serializing enums with Jackson

Question

I have an Enum desrcibed below:

public enum OrderType {

  UNKNOWN(0, \"Undefined\"),
  TYPEA(1, \"Type A\"),
  TYPEB(2, \"Type B\"),
  TYPEC(3, \"Type C\");         


        

Answer 1

@JsonFormat(shape= JsonFormat.Shape.OBJECT)
public enum SomeEnum

available since https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-databind/issues/24

just tested it works with version 2.1.2

answer to TheZuck:

I tried your example, got Json:

{"events":[{"type":"ADMIN"}]}

My code:

@RequestMapping(value = "/getEvent") @ResponseBody
  public EventContainer getEvent() {
    EventContainer cont = new EventContainer();
    cont.setEvents(Event.values());
    return cont;
 }

class EventContainer implements Serializable {

  private Event[] events;

  public Event[] getEvents() {
    return events;
 }

 public void setEvents(Event[] events) {
   this.events = events;
 }
}

and dependencies are:

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
  <artifactId>jackson-annotations</artifactId>
  <version>${jackson.version}</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
  <artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>
  <version>${jackson.version}</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
  <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
  <version>${jackson.version}</version>
  <exclusions>
    <exclusion>
      <artifactId>jackson-annotations</artifactId>
      <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
    </exclusion>
    <exclusion>
      <artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>
      <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
    </exclusion>
  </exclusions>
</dependency>

<jackson.version>2.1.2</jackson.version>