Jackson's @JsonView, @JsonFilter and Spring

Question

Can one use the Jackson @JsonView and @JsonFilter annotations to modify the JSON returned by a Spring MVC controller, whilst using MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverterand Spring's @ResponseBody and @RequestBody annotations?

public class Product {     private Integer id;     private Set<ProductDescription> descriptions;     private BigDecimal price;     ... }   public class ProductDescription {     private Integer id;     private Language language;     private String name;     private String summary;     private String lifeStory;     ... } 

When the client requests a collection of Products, I'd like to return a minimal version of each ProductDescription, perhaps just its ID. Then in a subsequent call the client can use this ID to ask for a full instance of ProductDescription with all properties present.

It would be ideal to be able to specify this on the Spring MVC controller methods, as the method invoked defines the context in which client was requesting the data.

Answer 1

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Add support for Jackson serialization views

Spring MVC now supports Jackon's serialization views for rendering different subsets of the same POJO from different controller methods (e.g. detailed page vs summary view). Issue: SPR-7156

This is the SPR-7156.

Status: Resolved

Description

Jackson's JSONView annotation allows the developer to control which aspects of a method are serialiazed. With the current implementation, the Jackson view writer must be used but then the content type is not available. It would be better if as part of the RequestBody annotation, a JSONView could be specified.

Available on Spring ver >= 4.1

UPDATE

Follow this link. Explains with an example the @JsonView annotation.