Question

I am using JACKSON 1.6.3 version. I have one class which has a reference to itself and JACKSON serializer is failing with complains about “circular references”.
I would like to disable serialization of this class. This is a third party class and I can not add any annotation to it, I am wondering if there is a way to disable this type of object being serialized. I am ok if the serializer ignores the entire object.

Answer 1

I fixed the issue by creating a custom JsonSerializer<T> for the type and registered it with ObjectMapper

mapper = new ObjectMapper();
CustomSerializerFactory factory = new CustomSerializerFactory();
factory.addSpecificMapping(<Type to be handled>, <Custom Serializer>);
mapper.setSerializerFactory(factory);