class A declares multiple JSON fields

Question

i have a class A which has some private fields and the same class extends another class B which also has some private fields which are in class A.

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Answer 1

This is a bit late, but I ran into this exact same problem as well. The only thing was that I wasn't able to modify the superclass as that code wasn't mine. The way that I resolved this was by creating an exclusion strategy that skipped any field that had a field of the same name present in a superclass. Here is my code for that class:

public class SuperclassExclusionStrategy implements ExclusionStrategy
{
    public boolean shouldSkipClass(Class<?> arg0)
    {
        return false;
    }

    public boolean shouldSkipField(FieldAttributes fieldAttributes)
    {
        String fieldName = fieldAttributes.getName();
        Class<?> theClass = fieldAttributes.getDeclaringClass();

        return isFieldInSuperclass(theClass, fieldName);            
    }

    private boolean isFieldInSuperclass(Class<?> subclass, String fieldName)
    {
        Class<?> superclass = subclass.getSuperclass();
        Field field;

        while(superclass != null)
        {   
            field = getField(superclass, fieldName);

            if(field != null)
                return true;

            superclass = superclass.getSuperclass();
        }

        return false;
    }

    private Field getField(Class<?> theClass, String fieldName)
    {
        try
        {
            return theClass.getDeclaredField(fieldName);
        }
        catch(Exception e)
        {
            return null;
        }
    }
}

I then set the Serialization and Deserialization exclusion strategies in the builder as follows:

    builder.addDeserializationExclusionStrategy(new SuperclassExclusionStrategy());
    builder.addSerializationExclusionStrategy(new SuperclassExclusionStrategy());

Hopefully this helps someone!

Answer 2

I used GsonBuilder and ExclusionStrategy to avoid the redundant fields as below, it is simple and straight forward.

Gson json = new GsonBuilder()
          .setExclusionStrategies(new ExclusionStrategy() {
             @Override
             public boolean shouldSkipField(FieldAttributes f) {
                if(f.getName().equals("netAmountPcy")){
                   return true;
                }
                return false;
             }

             @Override
             public boolean shouldSkipClass(Class<?> clazz) {
                return false;
             }
          }).create();