Support Gson's @Expose annotation

[robfletcher]

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[beckje01]

Would you like a different converter that supports the @Expose or do you want the current converter to be driven by a config option?

[robfletcher]

Good question. I hadn't really given it much thought. It doesn't feel like much would need to be different other than the mechanism for selecting the properties to iterate over. There are a couple of side-questions such as what happens if you add @Expose to a transient non-persistent property?

[beckje01]

The only reason you might want a different converter is if you wanted to be able to both do a as GSON that does the whole object as well as a as ExposedGSON that only shows the items with @Expose

As far as transient non-persistent property I haven't really tested with that in mind could it even be the same annotation?

[robfletcher]

Yeah, a different converter might make sense if you wanted to handle different classes with one or other mechanism. I think creating a different JsonSerializer / JsonDeserializer class might make sense. Another option would be refactoring the existing code to use an exclusion strategy.

[beckje01]

Just a quick idea what do you think of this I can put together a pull request if you like it https://gist.github.com/beckje01/5145266

[jrgleason]

I just noticed @exclude wasn't working for me. Do the other annotations function as expected? Will this ever be resolved?