Ignoring Nested properties in Jackson OnDemand - spring

Question

I am working on a spring boot application with Hibernate as ORM and Jackson as JSON serialiser .
I have three model objects and CRUD operations for all three models.
Class Student{
private Teacher teacher; // Teacher of the student — to be fetched eagerly
+Getter/Setter
}
class Teacher {
private List<Subject> subject; // List of subjects associated to that user— to be fetched eagerly
+Getter/Setter
}
class Subject {
private long subjectId
//Other subject properties
+ Getter/Setter
}
Whenever I trigger a get request for student info I get the teacher info which is correct where as I also receive Subject info as well which is unnecessary for me. In the same time when I request for Teacher info, I need Subject info should be associated to that for sure. If I use #JsonBackReference for subject I am losing it all the time. I am not sure how to achieve this.
Thanks in advance for your help!!

Answer 1

You can also annotate like this
Class Student{
#JsonIgnoreProperties("subject")
private Teacher teacher; // Teacher of the student — to be fetched eagerly
}

Answer 2

You can use JSON Views
From the spring blog:
public class View {
interface Summary {}
}
public class User {
#JsonView(View.Summary.class)
private Long id;
#JsonView(View.Summary.class)
private String firstname;
#JsonView(View.Summary.class)
private String lastname;
private String email;
private String address;
private String postalCode;
private String city;
private String country;
}
public class Message {
#JsonView(View.Summary.class)
private Long id;
#JsonView(View.Summary.class)
private LocalDate created;
#JsonView(View.Summary.class)
private String title;
#JsonView(View.Summary.class)
private User author;
private List<User> recipients;
private String body;
}
and in the controller
#RestController
public class MessageController {
#Autowired
private MessageService messageService;
#JsonView(View.Summary.class)
#RequestMapping("/")
public List<Message> getAllMessages() {
return messageService.getAll();
}
#RequestMapping("/{id}")
public Message getMessage(#PathVariable Long id) {
return messageService.get(id);
}
}
PS: No link to http://fasterxml.com/ as it's currently down.