How to specify jackson to only use fields - preferably globally

Question

Default jackon behaviour seems to use both properties (getters and setters) and fields to serialize and deserialize to json.

I would like to use the fields as the canonical source of serialization config and thus don't want jackson to look at properties at all.

I can do this on an individual class basis with the annotation:

 @JsonAutoDetect(fieldVisibility = Visibility.ANY, getterVisibility = Visibility.NONE, setterVisibility = Visibility.NONE)

But I don't want to have to put this on every single class...

Is it possible to configure this globally? Like add some to the Object Mapper?

Answer 1

You can configure individual ObjectMappers like this:

ObjectMapper mapper  = new ObjectMapper();
mapper.setVisibility(mapper.getSerializationConfig().getDefaultVisibilityChecker()
                .withFieldVisibility(JsonAutoDetect.Visibility.ANY)
                .withGetterVisibility(JsonAutoDetect.Visibility.NONE)
                .withSetterVisibility(JsonAutoDetect.Visibility.NONE)
                .withCreatorVisibility(JsonAutoDetect.Visibility.NONE));

If you want it set globally, I usually access a configured mapper through a wrapper class.