configuring the jacksonObjectMapper not working in spring mvc 3 - json

Question

What I am aiming to do is to configure spring mvc 3 to not return “null” object in json response.
I've asked the question how to configure spring mvc 3 to not return "null" object in json response? . And the suggestion I got is to configure the ObjectMapper, setting the serialization inclusion to JsonSerialize.Inclusion.NON_NULL. So Based on Spring configure #ResponseBody JSON format, I did the following changes in spring config file. But I got the error "Rejected bean name 'jacksonObjectMapper': no URL paths identified org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping:86-AbstractDetectingUrlHandlerMapping.java" during app startup.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-3.0.xsd">
<!-- Configures the #Controller programming model -->
<mvc:annotation-driven />
<!-- Forwards requests to the "/" resource to the "welcome" view -->
<!--<mvc:view-controller path="/" view-name="welcome"/>-->
<!-- Configures Handler Interceptors -->
<mvc:interceptors>
<!-- Changes the locale when a 'locale' request parameter is sent; e.g. /?locale=de -->
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.i18n.LocaleChangeInterceptor" />
</mvc:interceptors>
<!-- Saves a locale change using a cookie -->
<bean id="localeResolver" class="org.springframework.web.servlet.i18n.CookieLocaleResolver" />
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter">
<property name="messageConverters">
<list>
<bean class="org.springframework.http.converter.json.MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter">
<property name="objectMapper" ref="jacksonObjectMapper" />
</bean>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
<bean id="jacksonObjectMapper" class="org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper" />
<bean id="jacksonSerializationConfig" class="org.codehaus.jackson.map.SerializationConfig"
factory-bean="jacksonObjectMapper" factory-method="getSerializationConfig" />
<bean class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.MethodInvokingFactoryBean">
<property name="targetObject" ref="jacksonSerializationConfig" />
<property name="targetMethod" value="setSerializationInclusion" />
<property name="arguments">
<list>
<value type="org.codehaus.jackson.map.annotate.JsonSerialize.Inclusion">NON_DEFAULT</value>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
<!-- Resolves view names to protected .jsp resources within the /WEB-INF/views directory -->
<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">
<property name="prefix" value="/WEB-INF/views/"/>
<property name="suffix" value=".jsp"/>
</bean>
</beans>
I have no idea why it's been rejected. Any suggestion is greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

<mvc:annotation-driven /> and AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter cannot be used together. (ref: spring forum thread). Possible solution
do not use <mvc:annotation-driven/>. Declaring bean: DefaultAnnotationHandlerMapping
and AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter and other settings like validation, formatting.
use spring 3.1, which has <mvc:message-converters> (ref: Spring jira)