Serialize Order of Properties Using Jackson Library in Java

The @JsonPropertyOrder is an annotation to be used at the class-level. It takes as property a list of fields that defines the order in which fields can appear in the string resulting from the object JSON serialization. The properties included in the annotation declaration can be serialized first(in defined order), followed by any properties not included in the definition.

Syntax

public @interface JsonPropertyOrder

Example

import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.*;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.*;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonPropertyOrder;
import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
public class JsonPropertyOrderTest {
   public static void main(String args[]) throws JsonGenerationException, JsonMappingException,        IOException {
      Employee emp = new Employee();
      emp.setFirstName("Adithya");
      emp.setEmpId(25);
      emp.setLastName("Jai");
      emp.getTechnologies().add("Java");
      emp.getTechnologies().add("Scala");
      emp.getTechnologies().add("Python");
      ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
      mapper.writerWithDefaultPrettyPrinter().writeValue(System.out, emp);
   }
}
// Employee class
@JsonPropertyOrder({
   "firstName",
   "lastName",
   "technologies",
   "empId"
})
class Employee {
   private int empId;
   private String firstName;
   private String lastName;
   private List<String> technologies = new ArrayList<>();
   public int getEmpId() {
      return empId;
   }
   public void setEmpId(int empId) {
      this.empId = empId;
   }
   public String getFirstName() {
      return firstName;
   }
   public void setFirstName(String firstName) {
      this.firstName = firstName;
   }
   public String getLastName() {
      return lastName;
   }
   public void setLastName(String lastName) {
      this.lastName = lastName;
   }
   public List<String> getTechnologies() {
      return technologies;
   }
   public void setTechnologies(List<String> technologies) {
      this.technologies = technologies;
   }
}

Output

{
   "firstName" : "Adithya",
   "lastName" : "Jai",
   "technologies" : [ "Java", "Scala", "Python" ],
   "empId" : 125
}