spring: return JSON from controller as ModelAndVIew

Question

How can I return JSON from spring controller as a view or ModelAndView? I am not interested in using @ResponseBody annotation. Is there any other way of doing this?

Answer 1

Yes, you can return a MappingJacksonJsonView or assign it to a ModelAndView object using mav.setView(new MappingJacksonJsonView()).

Update: In Spring 4 MappingJacksonJsonView is deprecated. You might want to upgrade to MappingJackson2JsonView