Force Spring Boot to use Gson instead of Jackson

Well, WebMvcConfigurerAdapter is deprecated. As of Spring 5.0 do this:

@SpringBootApplication(exclude = {JacksonAutoConfiguration.class})
public class Spring01Application {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(Spring01Application.class, args);
    }

}

@Configuration
public class WebConfig implements WebMvcConfigurer {
    @Bean
    public Gson gson() {
        GsonBuilder b = new GsonBuilder();
        b.registerTypeAdapterFactory(HibernateProxyTypeAdapter.FACTORY);
        b.registerTypeAdapterFactory(DateTypeAdapter.FACTORY);
        b.registerTypeAdapterFactory(TimestampTypeAdapter.FACTORY);
        b.registerTypeAdapterFactory(LocalDateTypeAdapter.FACTORY);
        b.registerTypeAdapterFactory(LocalDateTimeTypeAdapter.FACTORY);
        return b.create();
    }

    @Override
    public void configureMessageConverters(
        List<HttpMessageConverter<?>> converters) {
        StringHttpMessageConverter stringConverter = new StringHttpMessageConverter();
        stringConverter.setWriteAcceptCharset(false);
        stringConverter.setSupportedMediaTypes(Collections
            .singletonList(MediaType.TEXT_PLAIN));
        converters.add(stringConverter);
        converters.add(new ByteArrayHttpMessageConverter());
        converters.add(new SourceHttpMessageConverter<>());
        GsonHttpMessageConverter gsonHttpMessageConverter = new GsonHttpMessageConverter();
        gsonHttpMessageConverter.setGson(gson());
        gsonHttpMessageConverter.setSupportedMediaTypes(Arrays
            .asList(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON));
        converters.add(gsonHttpMessageConverter);
    }
}

References
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40786366/force-spring-boot-to-use-gson-instead-of-jackson