How to return a partial JSON response using Java?

Question

I\'m building a RESTful API and want to provide developers with the option to choose which fields to return in the JSON response. This blog post shows examples of how sever

Answer 1

The Library jersey-entity-filtering Can do that :

https://github.com/jersey/jersey/tree/2.22.2/examples/entity-filtering-selectable

https://jersey.java.net/documentation/latest/entity-filtering.html

Exemple :

My Object

public class Address {

    private String streetAddress;
    private String region;
    private PhoneNumber phoneNumber;
}

URL

people/1234?select=streetAddress,region

RETURN

{
   "streetAddress": "2 square Tyson",
   "region": "Texas"
}

Add to Maven

    org.glassfish.jersey.ext
    jersey-entity-filtering
    2.22.2