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Ignore All Fields by Type Finally, we can ignore all fields of a specified type, using the @JsonIgnoreType annotation. If we control the type, then we can annotate the class directly: @JsonIgnoreType public class SomeType { ... }
If there are fields in Java objects that do not wish to be serialized, we can use the @JsonIgnore annotation in the Jackson library. The @JsonIgnore can be used at the field level, for ignoring fields during the serialization and deserialization.
To ignore individual properties, use the [JsonIgnore] attribute. You can specify conditional exclusion by setting the [JsonIgnore] attribute's Condition property. The JsonIgnoreCondition enum provides the following options: Always - The property is always ignored.
The Jackson @JsonIgnore annotation can be used to ignore a certain property or field of a Java object. The property can be ignored both when reading JSON into Java objects and when writing Java objects into JSON.
You can use Jackson Mixins. For example:
class YourClass {
public int ignoreThis() { return 0; }
}
With this Mixin
abstract class MixIn {
@JsonIgnore abstract int ignoreThis(); // we don't need it!
}
With this:
objectMapper.getSerializationConfig().addMixInAnnotations(YourClass.class, MixIn.class);
Edit:
Thanks to the comments, with Jackson 2.5+, the API has changed and should be called with objectMapper.addMixIn(Class<?> target, Class<?> mixinSource)
One other possibility is, if you want to ignore all unknown properties, you can configure the mapper as follows:
mapper.configure(DeserializationFeature.FAIL_ON_UNKNOWN_PROPERTIES, false);
Using Java Class
new ObjectMapper().configure(DeserializationFeature.FAIL_ON_UNKNOWN_PROPERTIES, false)
Using Annotation
@JsonIgnoreProperties(ignoreUnknown=true)
Annotation based approach is better. But sometimes manual operation is needed. For this purpose you can use without method of ObjectWriter.
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper().configure(DeserializationFeature.FAIL_ON_UNKNOWN_PROPERTIES, false)
ObjectWriter writer = mapper.writer().withoutAttribute("property1").withoutAttribute("property2");
String jsonText = writer.writeValueAsString(sourceObject);
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