Jackson Annotations - @JsonIgnoreType

@JsonIgnoreType is used at mark a property of special type to be ignored.

Example - @JsonIgnoreType

import java.io.IOException;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIgnoreType;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;

public class JacksonTester {
   public static void main(String args[]){
      ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
      try {
         Student student = new Student(1,11,"1ab","Mark");       
         String jsonString = mapper
            .writerWithDefaultPrettyPrinter()
            .writeValueAsString(student);
         System.out.println(jsonString);
      }
      catch (IOException e) { 
         e.printStackTrace();
      }     
   }
}
class Student { 
   public int id;
   @JsonIgnore
   public String systemId;
   public int rollNo;
   public Name nameObj;

   Student(int id, int rollNo, String systemId, String name){
      this.id = id;
      this.systemId = systemId;
      this.rollNo = rollNo;
      nameObj = new Name(name);
   }

   @JsonIgnoreType
   class Name {
      public String name;
      Name(String name){
         this.name = name;
      }       
   }
}

Output

{
   "id" : 1,
   "systemId" : "1ab",
   "rollNo" : 11
}