diff --git a/parquet-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/hadoop/ParquetInputSplit.java b/parquet-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/hadoop/ParquetInputSplit.java
index ae9d4cfa42..c08add2ec3 100644
--- a/parquet-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/hadoop/ParquetInputSplit.java
+++ b/parquet-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/hadoop/ParquetInputSplit.java
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream;
 import java.util.zip.GZIPOutputStream;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIgnore;
 import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceAudience.Private;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
 import org.apache.hadoop.io.Writable;
@@ -55,6 +56,8 @@ public class ParquetInputSplit extends FileSplit implements Writable {
 
   private long end;
   private long[] rowGroupOffsets;
+
+  @JsonIgnore
   private volatile ParquetMetadata footer;
 
   /**
diff --git a/parquet-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/hadoop/metadata/ParquetMetadata.java b/parquet-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/hadoop/metadata/ParquetMetadata.java
index 0765a5ec4c..cf59fa611e 100755
--- a/parquet-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/hadoop/metadata/ParquetMetadata.java
+++ b/parquet-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/hadoop/metadata/ParquetMetadata.java
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
  */
 package org.apache.parquet.hadoop.metadata;
 
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIgnore;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.StringReader;
@@ -85,6 +86,7 @@ public static ParquetMetadata fromJSON(String json) {
   private final FileMetaData fileMetaData;
   private final List<BlockMetaData> blocks;
 
+  @JsonIgnore
   private volatile InputFile inputFile;
 
   /**