How to ignore attributes while serializing a class by ObjectMapper - json

Question

I have a class with lots of attributes which are required for server side logic, but a few of those are required for UI. Now when I am creating a json from the class, all the attributes are written to json. I want to ignore some values only when it is converted to json. I Tried with #JsonIgnore. But it is not working.
My Class Is
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIgnore;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIgnoreProperties;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonProperty;
#JsonIgnoreProperties(ignoreUnknown = true)
public class Student {
#JsonProperty("id")
protected Integer id;
#JsonProperty("name")
protected String name;
/**
* This field I want to ignore in json.
* Thus used #JsonIgnore in its getter
*/
#JsonProperty("securityCode")
protected String securityCode;
public Integer getId() {
return id;
}
public void setId(Integer id) {
this.id = id;
}
public String getName() {
return name;
}
public void setName(String name) {
this.name = name;
}
#JsonIgnore
public String getSecurityCode() {
return securityCode;
}
public void setSecurityCode(String securityCode) {
this.securityCode = securityCode;
}
}
And I am writing this using
public static StringBuilder convertToJson(Object value){
StringBuilder stringValue = new StringBuilder();
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
try {
stringValue.append(mapper.writeValueAsString(value));
} catch (JsonProcessingException e) {
logger.error("Error while converting to json>>",e);
}
return stringValue;
}
My Expected json should contain only :
id:1
name:abc
but what I am getting is
id:1
name:abc
securityCode:_gshb_90880..some_value.
What is wrong here, please help

Answer 1

Your #JsonProperty annotation overrides #JsonIgnore annotation. Remove #JsonProperty from securityCode and your desired json output will be produced.
If you want more advanced ignoring / filtering please take a look at:
#JsonView : http://wiki.fasterxml.com/JacksonJsonViews
#JsonFilter : http://wiki.fasterxml.com/JacksonFeatureJsonFilter