Configuring ObjectMapper in Spring

Question

my goal is to configure the objectMapper in the way that it only serialises element which are annotated with @JsonProperty.

In order to do so I followed this explanation which says how to configurate the objectmapper.

I included the custom objectmapper as described here.

However when the class NumbersOfNewEvents is serialized it still contains all attributes in the json.

Does anybody have a hint? Thanks in advance

Jackson 1.8.0 spring 3.0.5

CustomObjectMapper

public class CompanyObjectMapper extends ObjectMapper {
    public CompanyObjectMapper() {
        super();
        setVisibilityChecker(getSerializationConfig()
                .getDefaultVisibilityChecker()
                .withCreatorVisibility(JsonAutoDetect.Visibility.NONE)
                .withFieldVisibility(JsonAutoDetect.Visibility.NONE)
                .withGetterVisibility(JsonAutoDetect.Visibility.NONE)
                .withIsGetterVisibility(JsonAutoDetect.Visibility.NONE)
                .withSetterVisibility(JsonAutoDetect.Visibility.DEFAULT));
    }
}

servlet.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
    xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd
        http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.0.xsd">

    <context:component-scan base-package="de.Company.backend.web" />

    <mvc:annotation-driven />

    <bean
        class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter">
        <property name="messageConverters">
            <list>
                <bean class="org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter">
                    <property name="objectMapper" ref="jacksonObjectMapper" />
                </bean>
            </list>
        </property>
    </bean>

    <bean id="jacksonObjectMapper" class="de.Company.backend.web.CompanyObjectMapper" />
</beans>

NumbersOfNewEvents

public class NumbersOfNewEvents implements StatusAttribute {

    public Integer newAccepts;
    public Integer openRequests;

    public NumbersOfNewEvents() {
        super();
    }
}

Answer 1

I found the solution now based on https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-module-hibernate

I extended the object mapper and added the attributes in the inherited constructor.

Then the new object mapper is registered as a bean.

<!-- https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-module-hibernate -->
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter">
    <property name="messageConverters">
        <array>
            <bean id="jsonConverter"
            class="org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter">
                <property name="objectMapper">
                    <bean class="de.company.backend.spring.PtxObjectMapper"/>
                </property>
            </bean>
        </array>
    </property>
</bean>   

Answer 2

There is org.springframework.http.converter.json.Jackson2ObjectMapperFactoryBean for a long time. Starting from 1.2 release of Spring Boot there is org.springframework.http.converter.json.Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder for Java Config.

In String Boot configuration can be as simple as:

spring.jackson.deserialization.<feature_name>=true|false
spring.jackson.generator.<feature_name>=true|false
spring.jackson.mapper.<feature_name>=true|false
spring.jackson.parser.<feature_name>=true|false
spring.jackson.serialization.<feature_name>=true|false
spring.jackson.default-property-inclusion=always|non_null|non_absent|non_default|non_empty

in classpath:application.properties or some Java code in @Configuration class:

@Bean
public Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder jacksonBuilder() {
    Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder builder = new Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder();
    builder.indentOutput(true).dateFormat(new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd"));
    return builder;
}

See:

• Official docs 74.3 Customize the Jackson ObjectMapper
• https://dzone.com/articles/latest-jackson-integration
• How do you globally set Jackson to ignore unknown properties within Spring?
• http://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/docs/current/javadoc-api/org/springframework/http/converter/json/Jackson2ObjectMapperFactoryBean.html

Answer 3

I've used this with Jackson 2.x and Spring 3.1.2+

servlet-context.xml:

Note that the root element is <beans:beans>, so you may need to remove beans and add mvc to some of these elements depending on your setup.

    <annotation-driven>
        <message-converters>
            <beans:bean
                class="org.springframework.http.converter.StringHttpMessageConverter" />
            <beans:bean
                class="org.springframework.http.converter.ResourceHttpMessageConverter" />
            <beans:bean
                class="org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter">
                <beans:property name="objectMapper" ref="jacksonObjectMapper" />
            </beans:bean>
        </message-converters>
    </annotation-driven>

    <beans:bean id="jacksonObjectMapper"
        class="au.edu.unimelb.atcom.transfer.json.mappers.JSONMapper" />

au.edu.unimelb.atcom.transfer.json.mappers.JSONMapper.java:

public class JSONMapper extends ObjectMapper {

    public JSONMapper() {
        SimpleModule module = new SimpleModule("JSONModule", new Version(2, 0, 0, null, null, null));
        module.addSerializer(Date.class, new DateSerializer());
        module.addDeserializer(Date.class, new DateDeserializer());
        // Add more here ...
        registerModule(module);
    }

}

DateSerializer.java:

public class DateSerializer extends StdSerializer<Date> {

    public DateSerializer() {
        super(Date.class);
    }

    @Override
    public void serialize(Date date, JsonGenerator json,
            SerializerProvider provider) throws IOException,
            JsonGenerationException {
        // The client side will handle presentation, we just want it accurate
        DateFormat df = StdDateFormat.getBlueprintISO8601Format();
        String out = df.format(date);
        json.writeString(out);
    }

}

DateDeserializer.java:

public class DateDeserializer extends StdDeserializer<Date> {

    public DateDeserializer() {
        super(Date.class);
    }

    @Override
    public Date deserialize(JsonParser json, DeserializationContext context)
            throws IOException, JsonProcessingException {
        try {
            DateFormat df = StdDateFormat.getBlueprintISO8601Format();
            return df.parse(json.getText());
        } catch (ParseException e) {
            return null;
        }
    }

}

Answer 4

Using Spring Boot (1.2.4) and Jackson (2.4.6) the following annotation based configuration worked for me.

@Configuration
public class JacksonConfiguration {

    @Bean
    public ObjectMapper objectMapper() {
        ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
        mapper.configure(DeserializationFeature.FAIL_ON_UNKNOWN_PROPERTIES, false);
        mapper.configure(MapperFeature.DEFAULT_VIEW_INCLUSION, true);

        return mapper;
    }
}

Answer 5

SOLUTION 1

First working solution (tested) useful especially when using @EnableWebMvc:

@Configuration
@EnableWebMvc
public class WebConfig implements WebMvcConfigurer {
    @Autowired
    private ObjectMapper objectMapper;// created elsewhere
    @Override
    public void extendMessageConverters(List<HttpMessageConverter<?>> converters) {
        // this won't add a 2nd MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter 
        // as the SOLUTION 2 is doing but also might seem complicated
        converters.stream().filter(c -> c instanceof MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter).forEach(c -> {
            // check default included objectMapper._registeredModuleTypes,
            // e.g. Jdk8Module, JavaTimeModule when creating the ObjectMapper
            // without Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder
            ((MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter) c).setObjectMapper(this.objectMapper);
        });
    }

SOLUTION 2

Of course the common approach below works too (also working with @EnableWebMvc):

@Configuration
@EnableWebMvc
public class WebConfig implements WebMvcConfigurer {
    @Autowired
    private ObjectMapper objectMapper;// created elsewhere
    @Override
    public void extendMessageConverters(List<HttpMessageConverter<?>> converters) {
        // this will add a 2nd MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter 
        // (additional to the default one) but will work and you 
        // won't lose the default converters as you'll do when overwriting
        // configureMessageConverters(List<HttpMessageConverter<?>> converters)
        // 
        // you still have to check default included
        // objectMapper._registeredModuleTypes, e.g.
        // Jdk8Module, JavaTimeModule when creating the ObjectMapper
        // without Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder
        converters.add(new MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter(this.objectMapper));
    }

Why @EnableWebMvc usage is a problem?

@EnableWebMvc is using DelegatingWebMvcConfiguration which extends WebMvcConfigurationSupport which does this:

if (jackson2Present) {
    Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder builder = Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder.json();
    if (this.applicationContext != null) {
        builder.applicationContext(this.applicationContext);
    }
    messageConverters.add(new MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter(builder.build()));
}

which means that there's no way of injecting your own ObjectMapper with the purpose of preparing it to be used for creating the default MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter when using @EnableWebMvc.

Answer 6

Above Spring 4, there is no need to configure MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter if you only intend to configure ObjectMapper.

(configure MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter will cause you to lose other MessageConverter)

You just need to do:

public class MyObjectMapper extends ObjectMapper {

    private static final long serialVersionUID = 4219938065516862637L;

    public MyObjectMapper() {
        super();
        enable(SerializationFeature.INDENT_OUTPUT);
    }       
}

And in your Spring configuration, create this bean:

@Bean 
public MyObjectMapper myObjectMapper() {        
    return new MyObjectMapper();
}