Java to Jackson JSON serialization: Money fields

You can use a custom serializer at your money field. Here's an example with a MoneyBean. The field amount gets annotated with @JsonSerialize(using=...).

public class MoneyBean {
    //...

    @JsonProperty("amountOfMoney")
    @JsonSerialize(using = MoneySerializer.class)
    private BigDecimal amount;

    //getters/setters...
}

public class MoneySerializer extends JsonSerializer<BigDecimal> {
    @Override
    public void serialize(BigDecimal value, JsonGenerator jgen, SerializerProvider provider) throws IOException,
            JsonProcessingException {
        // put your desired money style here
        jgen.writeString(value.setScale(2, BigDecimal.ROUND_HALF_UP).toString());
    }
}

That's it. A BigDecimal is now printed in the right way. I used a simple testcase to show it:

@Test
public void jsonSerializationTest() throws Exception {
     MoneyBean m = new MoneyBean();
     m.setAmount(new BigDecimal("20.3"));

     ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
     assertEquals("{\"amountOfMoney\":\"20.30\"}", mapper.writeValueAsString(m));
}

Instead of setting the @JsonSerialize on each member or getter you can configure a module that use a custome serializer for a certain type:

SimpleModule module = new SimpleModule();
module.addSerializer(BigInteger.class, new ToStringSerializer());
objectMapper.registerModule(module);

In the above example, I used the to string serializer to serialize BigIntegers (since javascript can not handle such numeric values).

You can use @JsonFormat annotation with shape as STRING on your BigDecimal variables. Refer below:

 import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonFormat;

  class YourObjectClass {

      @JsonFormat(shape=JsonFormat.Shape.STRING)
      private BigDecimal yourVariable;

 }