Jersey, JAXB and Jackson ignore XmlTransient in 1.4 but honour it in 1.3.5

In upgrading from spring-boot 1.3.5 including the spring-boot-starter-jersey it went from working to getting this exception:

org.glassfish.jersey.server.internal.process.MappableException: com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonMappingException: Infinite recursion

due to my User > accounts > owner > accounts etc. recursion

In 1.3.5 it honors @XmlTransient but with 1.4.0.SNAPSHOT it doesn’t

According to this: http://wiki.fasterxml.com/JacksonJAXBAnnotations

the jackson-xc library should be added and the JAXB annotation introspector should be registered

[jasoncarreira]

I simplified this a bit too much to get the stack trace, but if you look at the JSON output from calling http://localhost:8080/organizations first with the 1.3.5 then with the 1.4.0 you can see that @XmlTransient is not being honored. Just switch the comments on the spring-boot-version property and parent version in the top-level maven pom.xml.

Here’s some SQL to create sample data:

INSERT INTO `sample`.`organizations` (`id`, `name`) VALUES ('a', 'a');
INSERT INTO `sample`.`organizations` (`id`, `name`, `parent_id`) VALUES ('b', 'b', 'a');
INSERT INTO `sample`.`organizations` (`id`, `name`, `parent_id`) VALUES ('c', 'c', 'a');
INSERT INTO `sample`.`organizations` (`id`, `name`, `parent_id`) VALUES ('d', 'd', 'b');
INSERT INTO `sample`.`organizations` (`id`, `name`, `parent_id`) VALUES ('e', 'e', 'c');

api-sample.zip

[jasoncarreira]

Cool, thanks! I just looked for why Jersey wouldn’t honor JAXB annotations and that was what came up. As long as it produces the same as 1.3.5 I’ll be happy.