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Importance of @JsonIdentityInfo annotation using Jackson in Java?
The @JsonIdentityInfo annotation is used when an object has a parent-child relationship in the Jackson library. The @JsonIdentityInfo annotation is used to indicate the object identity during the serialization and deserialization process. The ObjectIdGenerators.PropertyGenerator is an abstract place-holder class to denote a case where Object Identifier to use comes from a POJO property.
Syntax
@Target(value={ANNOTATION_TYPE,TYPE,FIELD,METHOD,PARAMETER}) @Retention(value=RUNTIME) public @interface JsonIdentityInfo
Example
import java.util.*; import java.io.*; import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIdentityInfo; import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.ObjectIdGenerators; import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper; public class JsonIdentityInfoTest { public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper(); User user = new User(115, "Raja", "Ramesh"); Address address = new Address(125, "Madhapur", "Hyderabad", user); user.addAddress(address); String jsonString = mapper.writerWithDefaultPrettyPrinter().writeValueAsString(address); System.out.println(jsonString); } } // User class @JsonIdentityInfo(generator = ObjectIdGenerators.PropertyGenerator.class, property = "userId") class User { private int userId; private String firstName; private String lastName; private List<Address> addresses; public User(int userId, String firstName, String lastName) { this.userId = userId; this.firstName = firstName; this.lastName = lastName; this.addresses = new ArrayList<Address>(); } public int getUserId() { return userId; } public String getFirstName() { return firstName; } public String getLastName() { return lastName; } public void addAddress(Address address) { addresses.add(address); } } // Address class @JsonIdentityInfo(generator = ObjectIdGenerators.PropertyGenerator.class, property = "userId") class Address { private int userId; private String city; private String street; private User user; public Address(int userId, String street, String city, User user) { this.userId = userId; this.street = street; this.city = city; this.user = user; } public int getUserId() { return userId; } public String getStreet() { return street; } public String getCity() { return city; } public User getUser() { return user; } }
Output
{ "userId" : 125, "city" : "Hyderabad", "street" : "Madhapur", "user" : { "userId" : 115, "firstName" : "Raja", "lastName" : "Ramesh" } }
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