Serialization with Jackson 2

Following is an implementation that demonstrates how an object can be serialized into its corresponding JSON string.

class Test {

    private int idx;
    private String name;

    public int getIdx() {
        return idx;
    }

    public void setIdx(int idx) {
        this.idx = idx;
    }

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }
}

Serialization:

Test test = new Test();
test.setIdx(1);
test.setName("abc");
    
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();

String jsonString;
try {
    jsonString = mapper.writerWithDefaultPrettyPrinter().writeValueAsString(test);
    System.out.println(jsonString);
} catch (JsonProcessingException ex) {
    // Handle Exception
}

Output:

{
  "idx" : 1,
  "name" : "abc"
}

You can omit the Default Pretty Printer if you don’t need it.

The dependency used here is as follows:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
    <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
    <version>2.6.3</version>
</dependency>

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