Jackson: how to prevent field serialization [duplicate]

You can mark it as @JsonIgnore.

With 1.9, you can add @JsonIgnore for getter, @JsonProperty for setter, to make it deserialize but not serialize.

Illustrating what StaxMan has stated, this works for me

private String password;

@JsonIgnore
public String getPassword() {
    return password;
}

@JsonProperty
public void setPassword(String password) {
    this.password = password;
}

The easy way is to annotate your getters and setters.

Here is the original example modified to exclude the plain text password, but then annotate a new method that just returns the password field as encrypted text.

class User {

    private String password;

    public void setPassword(String password) {
        this.password = password;
    }

    @JsonIgnore
    public String getPassword() {
        return password;
    }

    @JsonProperty("password")
    public String getEncryptedPassword() {
        // encryption logic
    }
}