When using Spring MVC for REST, how do you enable Jackson to pretty-print rendered JSON?

When you are using Jackson 2.0.0, you can do it in a way Les wanted to. I currently use RC3 and the configuration seems to be working as expected.

ObjectMapper jacksonMapper = new ObjectMapper();
jacksonMapper.configure(SerializationFeature.INDENT_OUTPUT, true);

translates

{"foo":"foo","bar":{"field1":"field1","field2":"field2"}}

into

{
  "foo" : "foo",
  "bar" : {
    "field1" : "field1",
    "field2" : "field2"
  }
}

I had trouble getting the custom MappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter to work as suggested above but I was finally able to get it to work after struggling w/ the configuration. From the code stand point I did exactly what was mentioned above but I had to add the following configuration to my springapp-servlet.xml to get it to work.

I hope this helps others who are looking to implement the same.

<bean class="org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.annotation.AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter">
    <property name="messageConverters">
        <list>
            <ref bean="jsonConverter" />
        </list>
    </property>
</bean>

<bean id="jsonConverter" class="com.xxx.xxx.xxx.common.PrettyPrintMappingJacksonHttpMessageConverter">
    <property name="supportedMediaTypes" value="application/json" />
    <property name="prettyPrint" value="true" />
</bean>