java - Spring configure @ResponseBody JSON format

Question

Imagine I have this annotated method in a Spring 3 @Controller

@RequestMapping("")
public @ResponseBody MyObject index(@RequestBody OtherObject obj) {
    MyObject result = ...;
    return result;
}

But I need to configure the output json format, just as if I were doing:

ObjectMapper om = new ObjectMapper();
om.configure(JsonGenerator.Feature.QUOTE_FIELD_NAMES, true);
om.getSerializationConfig()
        .setSerializationInclusion(JsonSerialize.Inclusion.NON_DEFAULT);
om.getSerializationConfig()
        .set(SerializationConfig.Feature.INDENT_OUTPUT, false);

Is there any way to configure this behaviour?

I've found a couple of related questions, but I am not sure about how to adapt them to my specific case:

1. spring prefixjson with responsebody
2. Who sets response content-type in Spring MVC (@ResponseBody)

Thank you !

Answer 1

For the folks who are using Java based Spring configuration:

@Configuration
@ComponentScan(basePackages = "com.domain.sample")
@EnableWebMvc
public class SpringConfig extends WebMvcConfigurerAdapter {
....

    @Override
    public void configureMessageConverters(List<HttpMessageConverter<?>> converters) {
        final MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter converter = new MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter();
        final ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
        objectMapper.setSerializationInclusion(JsonInclude.Include.NON_NULL);
        converter.setObjectMapper(objectMapper);
        converters.add(converter);
        super.configureMessageConverters(converters);
    }

....

}

I'm using MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter - which is from fasterxml.

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
  <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
  <version>2.3.1</version>
</dependency>

If you want to use codehaus-jackson mapper, instead use this one MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter

 <dependency>
    <groupId>org.codehaus.jackson</groupId>
    <artifactId>jackson-mapper-asl</artifactId>
    <version>${codehaus.jackson.version}</version>
 </dependency>