SOLVED
Eventually found this link:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5005668/configure-jersey-jackson-to-not-use-xmlelement-field-annotation-for-json-field
Which illustrates the exact solution which precisely solved my issue.
For posterity, it states that you should implement a class like the
following:
@Provider
@Produces(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)
public class JacksonContextResolver implements ContextResolver<ObjectMapper> {
private ObjectMapper objectMapper;
/**
* Creates a new instance.
*
* @throws Exception
*/
public JacksonContextResolver() throws Exception {
this.objectMapper = new ObjectMapper().configure(
DeserializationConfig.Feature.USE_ANNOTATIONS, false)
.configure(SerializationConfig.Feature.USE_ANNOTATIONS, false);
;
}
/**
* @see javax.ws.rs.ext.ContextResolver#getContext(java.lang.Class)
*/
public ObjectMapper getContext(Class<?> objectType) {
return objectMapper;
}
}
And then reference as a singleton bean in your spring config.
<bean class="package.JacksonContextResolver" scope="singleton"/>
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