Spring boot Jersey Jackson

The general way to configure the ObjectMapper for JAX-RS/Jersey applications is use a ContextResolver. For example

@Provider
public class ObjectMapperContextResolver implements ContextResolver<ObjectMapper> {

    private final ObjectMapper mapper;

    public ObjectMapperContextResolver() {
        mapper = new ObjectMapper();
        mapper.setPropertyNamingStrategy(
            PropertyNamingStrategy.CAMEL_CASE_TO_LOWER_CASE_WITH_UNDERSCORES
        );
    }

    @Override
    public ObjectMapper getContext(Class<?> type) {
        return mapper;
    }
}

It should be picked up with the package scan, or you can explicitly register it, if it’s not within the package scope

public JerseyConfig() {
    register(new ObjectMapperContextResolver());
    // Or if there's is an injection required
    // register it as a .class instead of instance
}

The ContextResolver is called during the marshalling and unmarshalling. The class/type being serialzed or deserialized into will be passed to the getContext method. So you could even use more than one mapper for different types, or even more use cases.


UPDATE

Starting from Spring Boot 1.4, you can just create an ObjectMapper Spring bean, and Spring Boot will create the ContextResolver for you, and use your ObjectMapper

// in your `@Configuration` file.
@Bean
public ObjectMapper mapper() {}

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