org.springframework.web.servlet.view.json
Class MappingJacksonJsonView

java.lang.Object
  extended by org.springframework.context.support.ApplicationObjectSupport
      extended by org.springframework.web.context.support.WebApplicationObjectSupport
          extended by org.springframework.web.servlet.view.AbstractView
              extended by org.springframework.web.servlet.view.json.MappingJacksonJsonView
All Implemented Interfaces:
BeanNameAware, ApplicationContextAware, ServletContextAware, View

public class MappingJacksonJsonView
extends AbstractView

Spring MVC View that renders JSON content by serializing the model for the current request using Jackson's ObjectMapper.

By default, the entire contents of the model map (with the exception of framework-specific classes) will be encoded as JSON. If the model contains only one key, you can have it extracted encoded as JSON alone via #setExtractValueFromSingleKeyModel.

Since:
3.0
Author:
Jeremy Grelle, Arjen Poutsma
See Also:
MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter

Field Summary
static String DEFAULT_CONTENT_TYPE
          Default content type.
 
Fields inherited from class org.springframework.context.support.ApplicationObjectSupport
logger
 
Fields inherited from interface org.springframework.web.servlet.View
RESPONSE_STATUS_ATTRIBUTE
 
Constructor Summary
MappingJacksonJsonView()
          Construct a new JacksonJsonView, setting the content type to application/json.
 
Method Summary
protected  Object filterModel(Map<String,Object> model)
          Filters out undesired attributes from the given model.
 Set<String> getRenderedAttributes()
          Return the attributes in the model that should be rendered by this view.
protected  void prepareResponse(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
          Prepare the given response for rendering.
protected  void renderMergedOutputModel(Map<String,Object> model, HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
          Subclasses must implement this method to actually render the view.
 void setDisableCaching(boolean disableCaching)
          Disables caching of the generated JSON.
 void setEncoding(org.codehaus.jackson.JsonEncoding encoding)
          Set the JsonEncoding for this converter.
 void setObjectMapper(org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper objectMapper)
          Sets the ObjectMapper for this view.
 void setPrefixJson(boolean prefixJson)
          Indicates whether the JSON output by this view should be prefixed with "{} && ".
 void setRenderedAttributes(Set<String> renderedAttributes)
          Set the attributes in the model that should be rendered by this view.
 
Methods inherited from class org.springframework.web.servlet.view.AbstractView
addStaticAttribute, createRequestContext, createTemporaryOutputStream, exposeModelAsRequestAttributes, generatesDownloadContent, getAttributesMap, getBeanName, getContentType, getRequestContextAttribute, getStaticAttributes, render, setAttributes, setAttributesCSV, setAttributesMap, setBeanName, setContentType, setRequestContextAttribute, toString, writeToResponse
 
Methods inherited from class org.springframework.web.context.support.WebApplicationObjectSupport
getServletContext, getTempDir, getWebApplicationContext, initApplicationContext, initServletContext, isContextRequired, setServletContext
 
Methods inherited from class org.springframework.context.support.ApplicationObjectSupport
getApplicationContext, getMessageSourceAccessor, initApplicationContext, requiredContextClass, setApplicationContext
 
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait
 

Field Detail

DEFAULT_CONTENT_TYPE

public static final String DEFAULT_CONTENT_TYPE
Default content type. Overridable as bean property.

See Also:
Constant Field Values
Constructor Detail

MappingJacksonJsonView

public MappingJacksonJsonView()
Construct a new JacksonJsonView, setting the content type to application/json.

Method Detail

setObjectMapper

public void setObjectMapper(org.codehaus.jackson.map.ObjectMapper objectMapper)
Sets the ObjectMapper for this view. If not set, a default ObjectMapper is used.

Setting a custom-configured ObjectMapper is one way to take further control of the JSON serialization process. For example, an extended SerializerFactory can be configured that provides custom serializers for specific types. The other option for refining the serialization process is to use Jackson's provided annotations on the types to be serialized, in which case a custom-configured ObjectMapper is unnecessary.


setEncoding

public void setEncoding(org.codehaus.jackson.JsonEncoding encoding)
Set the JsonEncoding for this converter. By default, UTF-8 is used.


setPrefixJson

public void setPrefixJson(boolean prefixJson)
Indicates whether the JSON output by this view should be prefixed with "{} && ". Default is false.

Prefixing the JSON string in this manner is used to help prevent JSON Hijacking. The prefix renders the string syntactically invalid as a script so that it cannot be hijacked. This prefix does not affect the evaluation of JSON, but if JSON validation is performed on the string, the prefix would need to be ignored.


setRenderedAttributes

public void setRenderedAttributes(Set<String> renderedAttributes)
Set the attributes in the model that should be rendered by this view. When set, all other model attributes will be ignored.


getRenderedAttributes

public Set<String> getRenderedAttributes()
Return the attributes in the model that should be rendered by this view.


setDisableCaching

public void setDisableCaching(boolean disableCaching)
Disables caching of the generated JSON.

Default is true, which will prevent the client from caching the generated JSON.


prepareResponse

protected void prepareResponse(HttpServletRequest request,
                               HttpServletResponse response)
Description copied from class: AbstractView
Prepare the given response for rendering.

The default implementation applies a workaround for an IE bug when sending download content via HTTPS.

Overrides:
prepareResponse in class AbstractView
Parameters:
request - current HTTP request
response - current HTTP response

renderMergedOutputModel

protected void renderMergedOutputModel(Map<String,Object> model,
                                       HttpServletRequest request,
                                       HttpServletResponse response)
                                throws Exception
Description copied from class: AbstractView
Subclasses must implement this method to actually render the view.

The first step will be preparing the request: In the JSP case, this would mean setting model objects as request attributes. The second step will be the actual rendering of the view, for example including the JSP via a RequestDispatcher.

Specified by:
renderMergedOutputModel in class AbstractView
Parameters:
model - combined output Map (never null), with dynamic values taking precedence over static attributes
request - current HTTP request
response - current HTTP response
Throws:
Exception - if rendering failed

filterModel

protected Object filterModel(Map<String,Object> model)
Filters out undesired attributes from the given model. The return value can be either another Map or a single value object.

The default implementation removes BindingResult instances and entries not included in the renderedAttributes property.

Parameters:
model - the model, as passed on to renderMergedOutputModel(java.util.Map, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse)
Returns:
the object to be rendered