Jackson JSON
Spring offers support for the Jackson JSON library.
JSON Views
Spring MVC provides built-in support for
Jackson’s Serialization Views,
which allow rendering only a subset of all fields in an Object
. To use it with
@ResponseBody
or ResponseEntity
controller methods, you can use Jackson’s
@JsonView
annotation to activate a serialization view class, as the following example shows:
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Java
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Kotlin
@RestController
public class UserController {
@GetMapping("/user")
@JsonView(User.WithoutPasswordView.class)
public User getUser() {
return new User("eric", "7!jd#h23");
}
}
public class User {
public interface WithoutPasswordView {};
public interface WithPasswordView extends WithoutPasswordView {};
private String username;
private String password;
public User() {
}
public User(String username, String password) {
this.username = username;
this.password = password;
}
@JsonView(WithoutPasswordView.class)
public String getUsername() {
return this.username;
}
@JsonView(WithPasswordView.class)
public String getPassword() {
return this.password;
}
}
@RestController
class UserController {
@GetMapping("/user")
@JsonView(User.WithoutPasswordView::class)
fun getUser() = User("eric", "7!jd#h23")
}
class User(
@JsonView(WithoutPasswordView::class) val username: String,
@JsonView(WithPasswordView::class) val password: String) {
interface WithoutPasswordView
interface WithPasswordView : WithoutPasswordView
}
@JsonView allows an array of view classes, but you can specify only one per
controller method. If you need to activate multiple views, you can use a composite interface.
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If you want to do the above programmatically, instead of declaring an @JsonView
annotation,
wrap the return value with MappingJacksonValue
and use it to supply the serialization view:
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Java
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Kotlin
@RestController
public class UserController {
@GetMapping("/user")
public MappingJacksonValue getUser() {
User user = new User("eric", "7!jd#h23");
MappingJacksonValue value = new MappingJacksonValue(user);
value.setSerializationView(User.WithoutPasswordView.class);
return value;
}
}
@RestController
class UserController {
@GetMapping("/user")
fun getUser(): MappingJacksonValue {
val value = MappingJacksonValue(User("eric", "7!jd#h23"))
value.serializationView = User.WithoutPasswordView::class.java
return value
}
}
For controllers that rely on view resolution, you can add the serialization view class to the model, as the following example shows:
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Java
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Kotlin
@Controller
public class UserController extends AbstractController {
@GetMapping("/user")
public String getUser(Model model) {
model.addAttribute("user", new User("eric", "7!jd#h23"));
model.addAttribute(JsonView.class.getName(), User.WithoutPasswordView.class);
return "userView";
}
}
@Controller
class UserController : AbstractController() {
@GetMapping("/user")
fun getUser(model: Model): String {
model["user"] = User("eric", "7!jd#h23")
model[JsonView::class.qualifiedName] = User.WithoutPasswordView::class.java
return "userView"
}
}