'@JsonIgnoreProperties' not working with entity relationship in version 2.9.5 and spring-boot 2.0.1

Hi. I’m using jackson 2.9.5 (spring-boot 2.0.1) and getting some issue when trying to use @JsonIgnoreProperties in a relationship.

Example:

@Entity
public class Login {
	String email;
	String password;
}

@Entity
public class User {
	String name;
	
	Company company;

	@JsonIgnoreProperties({"password"})
	Login login;
}

I didn’t know that @JsonIgnoreProperties could be used that way, but recently reading I saw that it works. When I try to get one user, the generated JSON should be:

{
	name: "User",
	login: {
		email: "[e-mail]"
	}
}

But getting the password (that should be ignored) too:

{
	name: "User",
	login: {
		email: "[e-mail]",
		password: "test"
	}
}

When I’m working with Bidirectional relationship it gets worse, because I get error of infinite recursion when trying to get the Company, for example. Example:

@Entity
public class Company {
	String name;

	@JsonIgnoreProperties({"company"})
	List<User> userList;
}

First time working with spring-boot here, maybe I can have misunderstood but I’ve read about this kind of use in Issue 70 and Issue 133.

I tried with jackson 2.9.4 (spring-boot 2.0.0) and it didn’t work too.

[cowtowncoder]

Also, as per my edit above: you are right, annotation DOES actually work. I love it when I sometimes forget that a feature enhancement has been made to support use case that did not work earlier 😃

[cowtowncoder]

@robsonfar Ok good. If it makes no difference it makes no difference. Thank you for testing it. I just wanted to know if it might be relevant, given that framework will either have to work with declared type or use Type Erased instance type – and in either case lose some information (in fact the Right Way is to combine the two… but I digress 😃 ).

I hope Spring Boot folks can share light here. It is possible something is needed from Jackson side, but they are in better position to help troubleshoot first, I think.