JSON fields unordered

Question

I am writing some RESTful services using spring MVC. I am using jsckson mapper to do the It conversions. It all works fine except that the json it produces has fields completely unordered.

for e.g. If my entity object looks like this:

public class EntityObj
{
   private String x;
   private String y;
   private String z;
}

If I now have a list of EntityObjs, and I return this back from the controller, the json has the order mixed up for the fields e.g.: [{y:"ABC", z:"XYZ", x:"DEF"},{y:"ABC", z:"XYZ", x:"DEF"}]

Looked around for a solution but not finding any. Anyone else faced this issue?

Thanks for the help

Answer 1

If alphabetical order suit you and you are using Spring Boot, you can add this in your application.properties :

spring.jackson.mapper.sort-properties-alphabetically=true