Spring Add a feature that enables registering Spring beans as Jackson field serializers [SPR-15141]

André Benjamin opened SPR-15141 and commented

For example adding a feature that when someone defines the following class with a field annotated with JsonSerialize:

import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.annotation.JsonSerialize;

public class Software {
    @JsonSerialize(using = LicenseSerializer.class)
    private String license;
}

Spring first tries to resolve LicenseSerializer from the beans context, and only when there was not such a bean declared, to let Jackson use its default mechanism of resolving and instantiating the bean.

So if I have:

@Component
public class LicenseSerializer implements JsonSerializer<String> {

}

Spring resolves the serializer from the beans context.

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Comment From: bclozel

Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder offers more flexibility there with multiple variants like serializers and serializerByType - registering serializers and deserializers in general, by type, as maps... In Spring Boot this can be done with a Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilderCustomizer bean.

I'm closing this issue as a result.