I tried @JsonDetect and
@JsonIgnoreProperties(value = { "handler", "hibernateLazyInitializer" })
Neither of them worked for me. Using a third-party module seemed like a lot of work to me. So I just tried making a get call on any property of the lazy object before passing to jackson for serlization. The working code snippet looked something like this :
@RequestMapping(value = "/authenticate", produces = "application/json; charset=utf-8")
@ResponseBody
@Transactional
public Account authenticate(Principal principal) {
UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken usernamePasswordAuthenticationToken = (UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken) principal;
LoggedInUserDetails loggedInUserDetails = (LoggedInUserDetails) usernamePasswordAuthenticationToken.getPrincipal();
User user = userRepository.findOne(loggedInUserDetails.getUserId());
Account account = user.getAccount();
account.getFullName(); //Since, account is lazy giving it directly to jackson for serlization didn't worked & hence, this quick-fix.
return account;
}