Java – jsonview annotation with include / exclude attribute

I have a use case where it seems more appropriate to use the jsonview annotation with exclusion information, for example:

@JSONView(Views.Report1.class,include=false)

This is not directly supported by Jackson (1.9.2) (including attributes), because I want to know if Jackson has a simple solution to achieve this goal

Use case:

>Report1: this view should contain ID, name, Info1, info2, info3, info4 attributes > report2: this view should have ID, info4 attributes > report [3..] Many other ideas are possible

private int id;
  private String name;
  private String info1;
  private String info2;
  //ignore if view=report2
  @JsonView(ReportViews.Report2.class,include=false)
  private String info3;
  private String info4;

My use case is to exclude attributes based on views (or report IDS) Using the jsonview method, I need to add all views to the info3 attribute except report2 to exclude them inappropriate.

In this case, what should be the correct method? Custom jsonview in addition to exclusion / inclusion will be the correct solution if no similar one is already available

Solution

There seems to be no way to exclude fields from a particular view in this way

However, by using interfaces to compose views from the required elements, you can build views very flexibly

In the above example, I will try this:

public class ReportViews {
    public interface NeedsInfo3 {};

    public static class Report1 implements NeedsInfo3 {};
    public static class Report2 {};
}

Then use the field - specific view in your model

private int id;
private String name;
private String info1;
private String info2;

@JsonView(ReportViews.NeedsInfo3.class)
private String info3;
private String info4;