Jackson - suppressing serialization(write) of properties dynamically

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I am trying to convert java object to JSON object in Tomcat/jersey using Jackson. And want to suppress serialization(write) of certain properties dynamically. I can use JsonIgnore, but I want to make the ignore decision at runtime. Any ideas?? So as an example below, I want to suppress "id" field when i serialize the User object to JSON.. ``` new ObjectMapper.writeValueAsString(user); class User { private String id = null; private String firstName = null; private String lastName = null; //getters //setters }//end class ```

Accepted Answer

Yes, JSON View is the way to go.

If you e.g. need to let the client to decide which fields to marshal, this example might help: http://svn.codehaus.org/jackson/tags/1.6/1.6.3/src/sample/CustomSerializationView.java

Jackson - suppressing serialization(write) of properties dynamically

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