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

After reading all available answers I found out, that most flexible, in my case, was to use custom @Exclude annotation. So, I implemented simple strategy for this (I didn't want to mark all fields using @Expose nor I wanted to use transient which conflicted with in app Serializable serialization) :

Annotation:

@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Target(ElementType.FIELD)
public @interface Exclude {
}

Strategy:

public class AnnotationExclusionStrategy implements ExclusionStrategy {

    @Override
    public boolean shouldSkipField(FieldAttributes f) {
        return f.getAnnotation(Exclude.class) != null;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean shouldSkipClass(Class clazz) {
        return false;
    }
}

Usage:

new GsonBuilder().setExclusionStrategies(new AnnotationExclusionStrategy()).create();