Configuring ObjectMapper in Spring

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();
    }
}

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;
    }
}

It may be because I'm using Spring 3.1 (instead of Spring 3.0.5 as your question specified), but Steve Eastwood's answer didn't work for me. This solution works for Spring 3.1:

In your spring xml context:

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

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

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