How to solve Direct self-reference leading to cycle error saving ActorRef on redis in playframework 2.4.6

I am using playframework 2.4.6 for a mobile chat backend. Everything is ok if I use memory instead of db. I am trying to save states in redis db. The code is below..

This is controller method accepting socket requests..

public WebSocket<String> chat(String roomId,String nick){
    return WebSocket.withActor(new Function<ActorRef, Props>(){
        @Override
        public Props apply(ActorRef actorRef) throws Throwable {
            return WebSocketActor.props(actorRef,new ChatUser(roomId, nick));
        }
    });
}

My Websocket Actor is below

public class WebSocketActor extends UntypedActor{
...
public WebSocketActor(ActorRef actorRef,ChatUser chatUser) {
            mChatUser = chatUser;
            mActorRef = actorRef;
            //redis room fetch
            mRoom = Room.fetchFromRedis(mChatUser.roomId);
            if(mRoom==null)
                mRoom = new Room(mChatUser.roomId);
            mRoom.addSocket(mActorRef);
        }
class Room{
    private String mRoomId;
    //TODO: this list causes error while saving to redis
    private List<ActorRef> mActorRefList;
    public Room() {
        //default no arg constructor
    }
    public Room(String roomId) {
        this.mRoomId = roomId;
        this.mActorRefList = new ArrayList<>();
    }

    public void addSocket(ActorRef actorRef){
        this.mActorRefList.add(actorRef);
        saveToRedis();
    }

    public static Room fetchFromRedis(String roomId){
        Jedis jedis = new Jedis("localhost");
        String roomJson = jedis.get(roomId);
        if(roomJson!=null&&!roomJson.equals(""))
            return Json.fromJson(Json.parse(roomJson),Room.class);
        return null;
    }

    private void saveToRedis(){
        Jedis jedis = new Jedis("localhost");
        JsonNode jsonNode = Json.toJson(this);
        String roomStr = Json.stringify(jsonNode);
        jedis.set(mRoomId, roomStr);
    }
}

I get error while saving my room object to redis because of List type mActorRefList parameter.

Stack trace is below..

[error] - akka.actor.OneForOneStrategy - exception during creation
akka.actor.ActorInitializationException: exception during creation
    at akka.actor.ActorInitializationException$.apply(Actor.scala:166) ~[akka-actor_2.11-2.3.13.jar:na]
    at akka.actor.ActorCell.create(ActorCell.scala:596) ~[akka-actor_2.11-2.3.13.jar:na]
    at akka.actor.ActorCell.invokeAll$1(ActorCell.scala:456) ~[akka-actor_2.11-2.3.13.jar:na]
    at akka.actor.ActorCell.systemInvoke(ActorCell.scala:478) ~[akka-actor_2.11-2.3.13.jar:na]
    at akka.dispatch.Mailbox.processAllSystemMessages(Mailbox.scala:263) ~[akka-actor_2.11-2.3.13.jar:na]
    at akka.dispatch.Mailbox.run(Mailbox.scala:219) ~[akka-actor_2.11-2.3.13.jar:na]
    at akka.dispatch.ForkJoinExecutorConfigurator$AkkaForkJoinTask.exec(AbstractDispatcher.scala:397) [akka-actor_2.11-2.3.13.jar:na]
    at scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinTask.doExec(ForkJoinTask.java:260) [scala-library-2.11.6.jar:na]
    at scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinPool$WorkQueue.runTask(ForkJoinPool.java:1339) [scala-library-2.11.6.jar:na]
    at scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinPool.runWorker(ForkJoinPool.java:1979) [scala-library-2.11.6.jar:na]
    at scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinWorkerThread.run(ForkJoinWorkerThread.java:107) [scala-library-2.11.6.jar:na]
Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException: null
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) ~[na:1.8.0_66]
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62) ~[na:1.8.0_66]
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45) ~[na:1.8.0_66]
    at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:422) ~[na:1.8.0_66]
    at akka.util.Reflect$.instantiate(Reflect.scala:66) ~[akka-actor_2.11-2.3.13.jar:na]
    at akka.actor.ArgsReflectConstructor.produce(Props.scala:355) ~[akka-actor_2.11-2.3.13.jar:na]
    at akka.actor.Props.newActor(Props.scala:255) ~[akka-actor_2.11-2.3.13.jar:na]
    at akka.actor.ActorCell.newActor(ActorCell.scala:552) ~[akka-actor_2.11-2.3.13.jar:na]
    at akka.actor.ActorCell.create(ActorCell.scala:578) ~[akka-actor_2.11-2.3.13.jar:na]
    ... 9 common frames omitted
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Direct self-reference leading to cycle (through reference chain: actors.Room["mActorRefList"]->java.util.ArrayList[0]->akka.actor.LocalActorRef["parent"]->akka.actor.RepointableActorRef["parent"]->akka.actor.LocalActorRef["parent"]->akka.actor.$anon$1["parent"])
    at play.libs.Json.toJson(Json.java:78) ~[play-json_2.11-2.4.6.jar:2.4.6]
    at actors.Room.saveToRedis(WebSocketActor.java:85) ~[classes/:na]
    at actors.Room.addSocket(WebSocketActor.java:72) ~[classes/:na]
    at actors.WebSocketActor.<init>(WebSocketActor.java:31) ~[classes/:na]
    ... 18 common frames omitted
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Direct self-reference leading to cycle (through reference chain: actors.Room["mActorRefList"]->java.util.ArrayList[0]->akka.actor.LocalActorRef["parent"]->akka.actor.RepointableActorRef["parent"]->akka.actor.LocalActorRef["parent"]->akka.actor.$anon$1["parent"])
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper.valueToTree(ObjectMapper.java:2374) ~[jackson-databind-2.5.4.jar:2.5.4]
    at play.libs.Json.toJson(Json.java:76) ~[play-json_2.11-2.4.6.jar:2.4.6]

Any solution ?

Thx..