Jackson JSON ignore on deserialize only

example.java

package com.thurloat.foo;

import org.codehaus.jackson.annotate.JsonIgnore;
import org.codehaus.jackson.annotate.JsonProperty;

/**
 * In order to write a composite data property (stats) out to JSON without reading
 * it back in, you need to explicitly ignore the property, as well as the setter and
 * then apply the @JsonProperty annotation to the getter.
 **/

public class Foo {
  
  @JsonIgnore
  private FooStats stats;

  private String label;

  @JsonProperty("stats")
  public FooStats getFooStats() {
    return stats;
  }

  @JsonIgnore
  public void setFooStats(FooStats stats) {
    this.stats = stats;
  }

  public String getLabel() {
    return label;
  }

  public void setLabel(String label) {
    this.label = label;
  }
}