Support for @JsonView

[RobusK]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Depending on context, I would like to either send the user the entire dto, or just a subset of its attributes. Eg.

Describe the solution you'd like
Example:

class User {
     @JsonView({Views.Basic, Views.Extended, Views.Admin})
     String username;
     @JsonView(Views.Admin);
     String password;
     @JsonViews(Views.Extended)
     Object[] userSettings;
}

class AdminEndpoint{
    // Admin may see password (or some other privileged field)
    @JsonView(Views.Admin)
    User getUser(){
         service.getUser();
    }

}

class UserEndpoint{
    // When querying a single user, also retrieve the userSettings (which may be many)
    @JsonView(Views.Extended)
    User getUser(){
         service.getUser();
    }

    // When retrieving lists, stick to the basics like id, username etc
    @JsonView(Views.Basic)
    List<User> getAllUsers(){
         service.getAllUsers();
    }
}

Describe alternatives you've considered
One could define separate DTOs for each use case. This is rather burdensome, and JsonView is a widely accepted solution in the Spring ecosystem.

[platosha]

Thanks. Seems to be a good idea, but it's not a priority for us yet. As mentioned, you can achieve a similar outcome by defining DTOs.

[platosha]

Please upvote this issue if you are interested.