[json] No serializer found for class org.hibernate.proxy.pojo.javassist.Javassist?

This is an issue with Jackson. To prevent this, instruct Jackson not to serialize nested relationship or nested class.

Look at the following example. Address class mapped to City, State, and Country classes and the State itself is pointing to Country and Country pointing to Region. When your get address values through Spring boot REST API you will get the above error. To prevent it, just serialize mapped class ( which reflects level one JSON) and ignore nested relationships with @JsonIgnoreProperties(value = {"state"}),@JsonIgnoreProperties(value = {"country"}) and @JsonIgnoreProperties(value = {"region"})

This will prevent Lazyload exception along with the above error. Use the below code as an example and change your model classes.

Address.java

@Entity
public class Address extends AbstractAuditingEntity
{
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 4203344613880544060L;

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
    @Column(name = "id")
    private Long id;

    @Column(name = "street_name")
    private String streetName;

    @Column(name = "apartment")
    private String apartment;

    @ManyToOne
    @JoinColumn(name = "city_id")
    @JsonIgnoreProperties(value = {"state"})
    private City city;

    @ManyToOne
    @JoinColumn(name = "state_id")
    @JsonIgnoreProperties(value = {"country"})
    private State state;

    @ManyToOne
    @JoinColumn(name = "country_id")
    @JsonIgnoreProperties(value = {"region"})
    private Country country;

    @ManyToOne
    @JoinColumn(name = "region_id")
    private Region region;

    @Column(name = "zip_code")
    private String zipCode;

    @ManyToOne
    @JoinColumn(name = "address_type_id", referencedColumnName = "id")
    private AddressType addressType;

}

City.java

@EqualsAndHashCode(callSuper = true)
@Entity
@Table(name = "city")
@Cache(region = "cityCache",usage = CacheConcurrencyStrategy.READ_WRITE)
@Data
public class City extends AbstractAuditingEntity
{
    private static final long serialVersionUID = -8825045541258851493L;

    @Id
    @Column(name = "id")
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
    private Long id;

    @Column(name = "name")
    //@Length(max = 100,min = 2)
    private String name;


    @ManyToOne
    @JoinColumn(name = "state_id")
    private State state;
}

State.java

@Entity
@Table(name = "state")
@Data
@EqualsAndHashCode(callSuper = true)
public class State extends AbstractAuditingEntity
{
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 5553856435782266275L;

    @Id
    @Column(name = "id")
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
    private Long id;

    @Column(name = "code")
    private String code;

    @Column(name = "name")
    @Length(max = 200, min = 2)
    private String name;

    @ManyToOne(fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
    @JoinColumn(name = "country_id")
    private Country country;

}

Country.java

@Entity
@Table(name = "country")
@Data
@EqualsAndHashCode(callSuper = true)
public class Country extends AbstractAuditingEntity
{
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 6396100319470393108L;

    @Id
    @Column(name = "id")
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
    private Long id;

    @Column(name = "name")
    @Length(max = 200, min = 2)
    private String name;

    @Column(name = "code")
    @Length(max = 3, min = 2)
    private String code;

    @Column(name = "iso_code")
    @Length(max = 3, min = 2)
    private String isoCode;

    @ManyToOne
    @JoinColumn(name = "region_id")
    private Region region;
}