Spring data MongoDb: MappingMongoConverter remove _class

Question

The default MappingMongoConverter adds a custom type key (\"_class\") to each object in the database. So, if I create a Person:

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Answer 1

<mongo:mongo host="hostname" port="27017">
<mongo:options
...options...
</mongo:mongo>
<mongo:db-factory dbname="databasename" username="user" password="pass"                     mongo-ref="mongo"/>
<bean id="mongoTypeMapper"     class="org.springframework.data.mongodb.core.convert.DefaultMongoTypeMapper">
<constructor-arg name="typeKey"><null/></constructor-arg>
</bean>
<bean id="mongoMappingContext"      class="org.springframework.data.mongodb.core.mapping.MongoMappingContext" />
<bean id="mongoConverter"     class="org.springframework.data.mongodb.core.convert.MappingMongoConverter">
<constructor-arg name="mongoDbFactory" ref="mongoDbFactory" />
<constructor-arg name="mappingContext" ref="mongoMappingContext" />
<property name="typeMapper" ref="mongoTypeMapper"></property>
</bean>
<bean id="mongoTemplate" class="org.springframework.data.mongodb.core.MongoTemplate">
<constructor-arg name="mongoDbFactory" ref="mongoDbFactory"/>
<constructor-arg name="mongoConverter" ref="mongoConverter" />
<property name="writeResultChecking" value="EXCEPTION" /> 
</bean>

Answer 2

While, Mkyong's answer still works, I would like to add my version of solution as few bits are deprecated and may be in the verge of cleanup.

For example : MappingMongoConverter(mongoDbFactory(), new MongoMappingContext()) is deprecated in favor of new MappingMongoConverter(dbRefResolver, new MongoMappingContext()); and SimpleMongoDbFactory(new Mongo(), "databasename"); in favor of new SimpleMongoDbFactory(new MongoClient(), database);.

So, my final working answer without deprecation warnings is :

@Configuration
public class SpringMongoConfig {

    @Value("${spring.data.mongodb.database}")
    private String database;

    @Autowired
    private MongoDbFactory mongoDbFactory;

    public @Bean MongoDbFactory mongoDBFactory() throws Exception {
        return new SimpleMongoDbFactory(new MongoClient(), database);
    }

    public @Bean MongoTemplate mongoTemplate() throws Exception {

        DbRefResolver dbRefResolver = new DefaultDbRefResolver(mongoDbFactory);

        // Remove _class
        MappingMongoConverter converter = new MappingMongoConverter(dbRefResolver, new MongoMappingContext());
        converter.setTypeMapper(new DefaultMongoTypeMapper(null));

        return new MongoTemplate(mongoDBFactory(), converter);

    }

}

Hope this helps people who would like to have a clean class with no deprecation warnings.

Answer 3

you just need to add the @TypeAlias annotation to the class defintion over changing the type mapper

Answer 4

This is my one line solution:

@Bean 
public MongoTemplate mongoTemplateFraud() throws UnknownHostException {

  MongoTemplate mongoTemplate = new MongoTemplate(getMongoClient(), dbName);
  ((MappingMongoConverter)mongoTemplate.getConverter()).setTypeMapper(new DefaultMongoTypeMapper(null));//removes _class
  return mongoTemplate;
}