Gson: How to exclude specific fields from Serialization without annotations

Question

I\'m trying to learn Gson and I\'m struggling with field exclusion. Here are my classes

public class Student {    
  private Long                id;
  privat         


        

Answer 1

Any fields you don't want serialized in general you should use the "transient" modifier, and this also applies to json serializers (at least it does to a few that I have used, including gson).

If you don't want name to show up in the serialized json give it a transient keyword, eg:

private transient String name;

More details in the Gson documentation