[[jackson]]
= Jackson Support

Spring Security provides Jackson support for persisting Spring Security-related classes.
This can improve the performance of serializing Spring Security-related classes when working with distributed sessions (session replication, Spring Session, and so on).

To use it, register the `SecurityJackson2Modules.getModules(ClassLoader)` with `ObjectMapper` (https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-databind[jackson-databind]):

[source,java]
----
ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
ClassLoader loader = getClass().getClassLoader();
List<Module> modules = SecurityJackson2Modules.getModules(loader);
mapper.registerModules(modules);

// ... use ObjectMapper as normally ...
SecurityContext context = new SecurityContextImpl();
// ...
String json = mapper.writeValueAsString(context);
----

[NOTE]
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The following Spring Security modules provide Jackson support:

- spring-security-core ({security-api-url}org/springframework/security/jackson2/CoreJackson2Module.html[`CoreJackson2Module`])
- spring-security-web ({security-api-url}org/springframework/security/web/jackson2/WebJackson2Module.html[`WebJackson2Module`], {security-api-url}org/springframework/security/web/jackson2/WebServletJackson2Module.html[`WebServletJackson2Module`], {security-api-url}org/springframework/security/web/server/jackson2/WebServerJackson2Module.html[`WebServerJackson2Module`])
- <<oauth2client, spring-security-oauth2-client>> ({security-api-url}org/springframework/security/oauth2/client/jackson2/OAuth2ClientJackson2Module.html[`OAuth2ClientJackson2Module`])
- spring-security-cas ({security-api-url}org/springframework/security/cas/jackson2/CasJackson2Module.html[`CasJackson2Module`])
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