How can I tell jackson to ignore a property for which I don’t have control over the source code?

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You can use Jackson Mixins. For example:

class YourClass {
  public int ignoreThis() { return 0; }    
}

With this Mixin

abstract class MixIn {
  @JsonIgnore abstract int ignoreThis(); // we don't need it!  
}

With this:

objectMapper.getSerializationConfig().addMixInAnnotations(YourClass.class, MixIn.class);

Edit:

Thanks to the comments, with Jackson 2.5+, the API has changed and should be called with objectMapper.addMixIn(Class<?> target, Class<?> mixinSource)

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