jackson - avoid serializing getters

Question

I have a class that has some additional getters for derived values. When I serialize this with jackson objectmapper, it writes out that field as well. Is there a way to avoid that?

example -

public class CustomPath implements Serializable {

private String path;
private String name;
private String extension = ".txt";

@JsonCreator(mode = JsonCreator.Mode.PROPERTIES)
public CustomPath(@JsonProperty("path") String path, @JsonProperty("name") String name) {
this.path = path;
this.name = name;
}

public String getPath()
{ return this.path;}

public void setPath(String path)
{ this.path = path;}

public String getName()
{ return this.name;}

public void setName(String name)
{ this.name = name;}


public String getExtension()
{ return this.extension;}

public void setExtension(String extension)
{ this.extension = extension;}

public String getFullPath() //do not want to serialize this
{ return this.path +"/" + this.name + this.extension;}

}

The json for a class like this looks like -

{
   path: somepath
   name: somename
   extension: .txt
   fullPath: somepath/somename.txt

}

But I do not want to serialize 'fullPath' in the example above. Is there any way I can avoid that?

Answer 1

You need to annotate the getFullPath() method with @JsonIgnore:

@JsonIgnore
public String getFullPath() // do not want to serialize this
{
    return this.path + "/" + this.name + this.extension;
}

Then the JSON output will look like this:

{
  "path" : "somePath",
  "name" : "someName",
  "extension" : ".txt"
}