In some cases of API development, we want to ignore some fields in the JSON response. In such cases we use the @JsonIgnore annotation, therefore, it was not designed to solve the Infinite Recursion problem.

In my projects, I use the @JsonIgnore annotation with the @ManyToMany bidirectional relationship between entities, and I use @JsonManagedReference and @JsonBackReference with @ManyToOne and @OneToMany cases.