Want to hide some fields of an object that are being mapped to JSON by Jackson

Question

I have a User class that I want to map to JSON using Jackson.

public class User {
    private String name;
    private int age;
    prviate int securityCode;         


        

Answer 1

if you are using GSON you have to mark the field/member declarations as @Expose and use the GsonBuilder().excludeFieldsWithoutExposeAnnotation().create()

Don't forget to mark your sub classes with @Expose otherwise the fields won't show.