Jackson Annotations - Mixin

Mixin Annotation is a way to associate annotations without modifying the target class. See the example below −

Example - Mixin Annotation

import java.io.IOException;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIgnoreType;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.MapperFeature;
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);

         ObjectMapper mapper1 = new ObjectMapper();
         mapper1.addMixIn(Name.class, MixInForIgnoreType.class);
         jsonString = mapper1
            .writerWithDefaultPrettyPrinter()
            .writeValueAsString(student);
         System.out.println(jsonString);
      }
      catch (IOException e) { 
         e.printStackTrace();
      }     
   }
}
class Student {
   public int id;
   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);
   }
}
class Name {
   public String name;
   Name(String name){
      this.name = name;
   }       
}
@JsonIgnoreType
class MixInForIgnoreType {}

Output

{
   "id" : 1,
   "systemId" : "1ab",
   "rollNo" : 11,
   "nameObj" : {
      "name" : "Mark"
   }
}
{
   "id" : 1,
   "systemId" : "1ab",
   "rollNo" : 11
}