While working on a side project using a JAX-RS API and JPA I wanted to explore how the entity graph features introduced in JPA 2.1 could be used to simplify data fetches for different endpoints. One issue I quickly ran into was how to deal with LazyInitializationExceptions with unloaded lazy fields.

The Hibernate module supplied by Jackson didn’t meet my needs and I couldn’t find any examples of what I needed so it was time to delve into how Jackson filtering works. The end solution turned out to be fairly straightforward and doesn’t rely on any vendor specifics so it’s worth sharing.

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