Jackson

1. Jackson Annotation Examples

1.1 Overview

In this tutorial, we'll do a deep dive into Jackson Annotations.

We'll see how to use the existing annotations, how to create custom ones, and finally, how to disable them.

2. Jackson Serialization Annotation

First, we'll take a look at the serialization annotations.

2.1 @JsonAnyGetter

The @JsonAnyGetter annotation allows for the flexibility of using a Map field as standard properties.

For example, the ExtendableBean entity has the name property and a set of extendable attributes in the form of key/value pairs: