class employee:
@Entity
@Table(name = "Employee")
public class Employee {
@Id
@GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
@Column(name = "EmployeeID")
private int EmployeeID;
@Column(name = "ManagerID")
private Integer ManagerID;
@ManyToOne(cascade={CascadeType.ALL})
@JoinColumn(name="ManagerID", insertable = false, updatable = false)
@JsonBackReference
private Employee manager;
@OneToMany(mappedBy="manager")
@JsonManagedReference
private Set employees;
@ManyToOne(cascade={CascadeType.ALL})
@JoinColumn(name = "DepartmentID")
private Department department;
@ManyToOne(cascade={CascadeType.ALL})
@JoinColumn(name = "SalaryTypeID")
private SalaryType salaryType;
@Column(name = "Name")
private String Name;
//setters and getters here, wont be posting them
}
Whenever I create an instance of employee I get this infinite json error:
SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet [SpringMVC] in context with path
[/SpringMVC] threw exception [Handler processing failed; nested exception is
java.lang.StackOverflowError] with root cause
java.lang.StackOverflowError
at java.nio.CharBuffer.(Unknown Source)
at java.nio.HeapCharBuffer.(Unknown Source)
at java.nio.CharBuffer.wrap(Unknown Source)
at sun.nio.cs.StreamEncoder.implWrite(Unknown Source)
at sun.nio.cs.StreamEncoder.write(Unknown Source)
at sun.nio.cs.StreamEncoder.write(Unknown Source)
at java.io.OutputStreamWriter.write(Unknown Source)
at java.io.Writer.write(Unknown Source)
at com.google.gson.stream.JsonWriter.string(JsonWriter.java:534)
at com.google.gson.stream.JsonWriter.writeDeferredName(JsonWriter.java:402)
at com.google.gson.stream.JsonWriter.value(JsonWriter.java:495)
(and then it keeps going)
Since I am self referencing manager which is an employee in the employee class, how can I fix this?
解决方案
There are bunch of options depends on your requirement:
1) @JsonIgnore can be used to avoid serialization of the field.
@OneToMany(mappedBy="manager")
@JsonIgnore
private Set employees;
2) @JsonView can hide one part of the relationship as internal view (but will appear if you will write JSON object with Internal view):
@OneToMany(mappedBy="manager")
@JsonView(Views.Internal.class)
private Set employees;
@ManyToOne(cascade={CascadeType.ALL})
@JoinColumn(name = "DepartmentID")
@JsonView(Views.Public.class)
private Department department;
3) Using custom serialiazer you can determine the rules of building your JSON object yourself.
4) Using @JsonIdentityInfo on classes (to indicate that properties of that type should have feature enabled) as well as on individual properties (to support cases where type itself can not be annotated; or to use different id generation sequence).