Use faster jackson to serialize object with oneToMany mappings

Question

Wanted to share this knowledge on using jackson to serialize object with oneToMany mappings and give the response in a string format,

My Class Structure :

@Entity
public class Order {    
    /*
        All the fields associated with this class
    */      
    @OneToMany(fetch = FetchType.EAGER, mappedBy = "orderId")
    private Set<OrderDetails> orderDetails;

    //Getters for all properties defined in this class as jackson would depend on this thing
}

In my case I am using a textWebSocket which is expecting a message only in String format so I need to serialize the objects and push to the client, I am depending on faster jackson to do it and here it goes,

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 16 '15 at 10:29

public String getObjectAsString()
{

    //orderObjs : Considering this is the list of objects of class Order

    ObjectMapper objMapper = new ObjectMapper();
            returnValue = objMapper.writerWithType(
                    objMapper.getTypeFactory().constructCollectionType(
                            List.class, Order.class)).writeValueAsString(
                    orderObjs);
    return returnValue;
}

Use faster jackson to serialize object with oneToMany mappings

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