Another idea to throw out there, if you use Jettison by codehaus, instead of
JAXB, you can dynamically build the JSONObject result in the method.
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Tatu Saloranta <tsaloranta_at_gmail.com>wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Mike Boyers <mboyers_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Using Jersey, I'm producing a JSON response that's an array of objects.
> The object in question has about 25 fields.
> >
> > There are some cases where I want to return an array of these objects and
> include every one of the object's fields in the response.
> >
> > However, there are also cases where I'd like to produce an abbreviated
> response that only contains a subset of the fields from the object.
> >
> > I'm trying to find a way to do this without having to make a different
> POJO for the abbreviated response.
> >
> > The only thing I've found so far is the @XmlTransient annotation, which
> is sort of along the same lines of what I'm looking for, but I'm looking for
> a way to do it conditionally.
>
> If you are using Jackson-based JSON provider, you could do this with
> JSON Views (http://wiki.fasterxml.com/JacksonJsonViews). It's an
> annotation-based way to indicate different views (profiles).
> But since Jersey knows nothing about views, you might be better off
> calling Jackson's ObjectMapper directly to produce output; I usually
> use StreamingOutput as wrapper to achieve this.
>
> Alternatively with JAXB what you could do is to define an interface
> with only those getters and setters that are applicable to subset, and
> make real object implement this interface. You would then need to
> convince JAXB serializer that type you want is that of this interface,
> similar to how you would work with Jackson-based serializer.
>
> -+ Tatu +-
>
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