We are using ObjectMapper to ignore serialisation of null maps in our project
configure(SerializationFeature.WRITE_NULL_MAP_VALUES, false)
But after Jackson-Databind 2.9, the property is depreciated and we are looking for an alternate option.
Can the below code work as substitute for removing the above property -
setSerializationInclusion(Include.NON_NULL)
From documentation:
Deprecated. Since
2.9
there are better mechanism for specifying filtering; specifically using JsonInclude or configuration overrides (seeObjectMapper.configOverride(Class)
). Feature that determines whetherMap
entries with null values are to be serialized (true) or not (false).
NOTE: unlike otherSerializationFeatures
, this feature cannot be dynamically changed on per-call basis, because its effect is considered during construction of serializers and property handlers.Feature is enabled by default.
Simple example:
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonInclude;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonInclude.Value;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.SerializationFeature;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
public class JsonApp {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
Map<String, Object> map = new HashMap<>();
map.put("string", "value");
map.put("int", 1);
map.put("null1", null);
map.put(null, null);
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
mapper.enable(SerializationFeature.INDENT_OUTPUT);
mapper.configOverride(Map.class).setInclude(Value.construct(JsonInclude.Include.NON_NULL, JsonInclude.Include.NON_NULL));
System.out.println(mapper.writeValueAsString(map));
}
}
Above code prints:
{
"string" : "value",
"int" : 1
}