hibernate - Jackson serializing of object omits the inversed side of @OneToMany relationship -

i using spring mvc rest controller perform simple crud operations on entities. i'm struggling little jackson trying figure out how implement @manytoone relationship. when jacskon serializes "inverse" side of relationship, omits "owning" property. heres @ code:

@entity public class competition {  @id @generatedvalue(strategy = generationtype.auto) private long id;  private string name;  private string nameinurl;  @manytoone(cascade = cascadetype.all) @jsonidentityreference(alwaysasid=true) @jsonbackreference(value="test") private sport sport;  public long getid() {     return id; }  public void setid(long id) {     this.id = id; }  public string getname() {     return name; }  public void setname(string name) {     this.name = name; }  public string getnameinurl() {     return nameinurl; }  public void setnameinurl(string nameinurl) {     this.nameinurl = nameinurl; }  public sport getsport() {     return sport; }  public void setsport(sport sport) {     this.sport = sport; } }  @entity public class sport {  @id @generatedvalue(strategy = generationtype.auto) private long id;  private string name;  private string nameinurl; @onetomany(cascade = cascadetype.all, mappedby="sport") @jsonmanagedreference(value="test") private set<competition> competitions = new hashset<competition>();  public long getid() {     return id; }  public void setid(long id) {     this.id = id; }  public string getname() {     return name; }  public void setname(string name) {     this.name = name; }  public string getnameinurl() {     return nameinurl; }  public void setnameinurl(string nameinurl) {     this.nameinurl = nameinurl; }  public set<competition> getcompetitions() {     return competitions; }  public void setcompetitions(set<competition> competitions) {     this.competitions = competitions; } } 

i ask how can achieve serializing competition entity in entirety, without omitting sport entity?

thanks, dave

well, according this answer (if understand right), @jsonbackreference , @jsonmanagedreference pair in serialization don't implies store whole object in json, id. when deserialize json obtain recursive connections without stackoverflow. expected behavior (i think=)).

but if need pass in json whole objects, need remove @jsonbackreference , @jsonmanagedreference , pass @jsonignore competitions field in sport class, lost recursive connection in deserialize.

also, can try write own deserializer sport class recursion obtain.

i hope you.