Spring Resttemplate unexpected field “session” in the post data

Question

{
    "platform": "iOS",
    "device": {
        "os_name": "iPhone OS",
        "manufacturer": "Apple",
        "type": "iPhone3",
        "version": "1",
        "os_version": "5.1.1"
    },
    "app_version": "1.0",
    "device_id": "",
    "app_key": "1234567890",
    "developer_key": "",
    "app_name": "test",
        "session": { // here
        "platform": "iOS",
        "device": {
            "os_name": "iPhone OS",
            "manufacturer": "Apple",
            "type": "iPhone3",
            "version": "1",
            "os_version": "5.1.1"
        },
        "app_version": "1.0",
        "device_id": "",
        "app_key": "1234567890",
        "developer_key": "",
        "app_name": "test"
    }
}

This is the data generated by MappingJacksonConverter but I don't know how to disable the "session" field containing the whole recursive data.

HttpEntity<OlSession> sessionEntity = new HttpEntity<OlSession>(new OlSession());

ResponseEntity<String> response = restTemplate.postForEntity("http://localhost:3000/test/abcd", sessionEntity, String.class);

This is the code to post the above data. Is there any part that I need to add to disable the "session" field?

Answer 1

There are two simple solution.

1) Use jackson annotation to ignore that property.

But in this way, session in OlSession property will not be serialized everywhere.

@JsonIgnore
Object getSession() {
  return session
}

Take a look this doc JacksonAnnotation

2) Just set null before you send.