If you want immutable but a json serializable POJO using lombok and jackson.
Use jacksons new annotation on your lomboks builder @JsonPOJOBuilder(withPrefix = "")
I tried this solution and it works very well.
Sample usage
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.annotation.JsonDeserialize;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.annotation.JsonPOJOBuilder;
import lombok.Builder;
import lombok.Value;
@JsonDeserialize(builder = Detail.DetailBuilder.class)
@Value
@Builder
public class Detail {
private String url;
private String userName;
private String password;
private String scope;
@JsonPOJOBuilder(withPrefix = "")
public static class DetailBuilder {
}
}
If you have too many classes with @Builder
and you want don’t want the boilerplate code empty annotation you can override the annotation interceptor to have empty withPrefix
mapper.setAnnotationIntrospector(new JacksonAnnotationIntrospector() {
@Override
public JsonPOJOBuilder.Value findPOJOBuilderConfig(AnnotatedClass ac) {
if (ac.hasAnnotation(JsonPOJOBuilder.class)) {//If no annotation present use default as empty prefix
return super.findPOJOBuilderConfig(ac);
}
return new JsonPOJOBuilder.Value("build", "");
}
});
And you can remove the empty builder class with @JsonPOJOBuilder
annotation.