Jackson Annotations - @JsonGetter

Overview

@JsonAnyGetter annotation allows a specific method to be marked as getter method.

Example - Serialization without using @JsonGetter

JacksonTester.java

package com.tutorialspoint;

import java.io.IOException; 
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper; 

public class JacksonTester {
   public static void main(String args[]){
      ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
      try {
         Student student = new Student("Mark", 1);
         String jsonString = mapper 
            .writerWithDefaultPrettyPrinter()
            .writeValueAsString(student);
         System.out.println(jsonString);
      }
      catch (IOException e) {
         e.printStackTrace();
      }
   }
}
class Student {
   private String name;
   private int rollNo;
   public Student(String name, int rollNo){
      this.name = name;
      this.rollNo = rollNo;
   }  
   public String getStudentName(){
      return name;
   } 
   public int getRollNo(){
      return rollNo;
   }
}

Output

Run the JacksonTester and verify the output −

{
  "rollNo" : 1,
  "studentName" : "Mark"
}

Example - Serialization with @JsonGetter

JacksonTester.java

package com.tutorialspoint;

import java.io.IOException;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper; 
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonGetter; 

public class JacksonTester {
   public static void main(String args[]){ 
      ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper(); 
      try {
         Student student = new Student("Mark", 1);    
         String jsonString = mapper 
            .writerWithDefaultPrettyPrinter() 
            .writeValueAsString(student); 
         System.out.println(jsonString); 
      } 
      catch (IOException e) { 
         e.printStackTrace();  
      }   
   }
}
class Student {
   private String name;
   private int rollNo;
   public Student(String name, int rollNo){
      this.name = name;
      this.rollNo = rollNo;
   }
   @JsonGetter
   public String getStudentName(){
      return name;
   }
   public int getRollNo(){
      return rollNo;
   }
}

Output

Run the JacksonTester and verify the output −

{
  "rollNo" : 1,
  "studentName" : "Mark"
}

Here we can see Jackson by default picks the getter of the Object. In case, we need to provide a custom getter method, we can use @JsonGetter annotation.