Cyclic/Recursive Error between parent child relation while using Jackson as data binding

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Issue

  • While ORM frameworks are being used like Hibernate to generate JSON of the entities, and bi-directional mappings are being defined between such entities, then following errors is being thrown in the logs.
    org.codehaus.jackson.map.JsonMappingException: Infinite recursion (StackOverflowError)

  • We are using Hibernate Persistence API with Jackson JSON api for data binding. There is one-to-one dependency between two different entities and while saving the data its working fine but while trying to retrieve the data its getting following recursive error.

org.codehaus.jackson.map.JsonMappingException: Infinite recursion (StackOverflowError) (through reference chain: org.redhat.model.Model["modelDetail"]->org.redhat.model.ModelDetail["model"]->org.redhat.model.Model["modelDetail"]->org.redhat.model.ModelDetail["model"]-
  • Here, Model is Parent entity and ModelDetail is child entity and there is one to one mapping between these two entities.

Environment

  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)
    • 6.x
  • JBoss Hibernate 4.x
  • Jackson 1.6

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