How to tell Jackson to ignore a field during serialization if its value is null?

Question

How can Jackson be configured to ignore a field value during serialization if that field\'s value is null.

For example:

public class SomeClass {
            


        

Answer 1

You can set application.properties:

spring.jackson.default-property-inclusion=non_null

or application.yaml:

spring:
  jackson:
    default-property-inclusion: non_null

http://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/common-application-properties.html