How to serialize using @Jsonview with nested objects

Question

I have a class which holds a collection of another class.

class A{
 @JsonView(VerboseViewA.Minimal.class)
 String field1;
 @JsonView(VerboseViewA.Complete.c         


        

Answer 1

After struggling with the same problem, I came up to this solution:

class A
{
    @JsonView(VerboseViewA.Minimal.class)
    String field1;
    @JsonView(VerboseViewA.Complete.class)
    String field2;
    @JsonView(VerboseViewA.Complete.class)
    @JsonSerialize(using = VerboseMinimalSerializer.class)
    Collection bEntities;
}

class B
{
    @JsonView(VerboseViewB.Minimal.class)
    String field2;
    @JsonView(VerboseViewB.Complete.class)
    String field3;
}

Now when serializing an instance of class A using VerboseViewA.Complete.class, bEnitities will be included and serialized using a custom VerboseMinimalSerializer, overriding its JsonView:

public class VerboseMinimalSerializer extends JsonSerializer