Jackson Annotations - @JsonValue

@JsonValue allows to serialize an entire object using its single method.

Example @JsonValue

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

public class JacksonTester {
   public static void main(String args[]){
      ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper(); 
      try { 
         Student student = new Student("Mark", 1);    
         String jsonString = mapper 
            .writerWithDefaultPrettyPrinter() 
            .writeValueAsString(student); 
         System.out.println(jsonString); 
      }
      catch (IOException e) { 
         e.printStackTrace(); 
      }   
   }
}
class Student {
   private String name;
   private int rollNo;
   public Student(String name, int rollNo){
      this.name = name;
      this.rollNo = rollNo;
   }
   public String getName(){
      return name;
   } 
   public int getRollNo(){
      return rollNo;
   }
   @JsonValue
   public String toString(){
      return "{ name : " + name + " }";
   }
}

Output

"{ name : Mark }"