jax-rs web service: how to hide some entity fields and use SSL

Question

Recently I asked some questions here about web services

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Answer 1

Since you're using Jersey you should have Jackson along with that. Jackson helps working with entity -> JSON and JSON -> entity parsing.

You're looking for an annotation called

@JsonIgnore

And you'll want to put that on the 'getter' method of the member you wish to obscure from the output.

Source: http://jackson.codehaus.org/