How to serialize a json containing LAZY associations
How to serialize a json containing LAZY associations I am having an Person entity which has @ManyToOne association with Contact entity with fetch type LAZY. I am using spring-boot to expose REST API. One of my POST call contains nested JSON to save the parent entity Person along with association Contact Person @ManyToOne Contact Person Contact Since Contact fetch type is LAZY, I am encountering into following exception Contact ERROR 17415 --- [nio-8080-exec-4] o.a.c.c.C.[.[.[/].[dispatcherServlet] : Servlet.service() for servlet [dispatcherServlet] in context with path threw exception [Request processing failed; nested exception is org.springframework.http.converter.HttpMessageConversionException: Type definition error: [simple type, class org.hibernate.proxy.pojo.javassist.JavassistLazyInitializer]; nested exception is com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.exc.InvalidDefinitionException: No serializer found for class org.hibernate.proxy.pojo.javassist.JavassistLazyInitializer and ...