How To Disable a Field From Response based on Environment

Question

Context: A Spring REST Web Service where is sends a response with POJO (example: Output.java) Now, Output.java contains 2 fields -

@JsonProperty("One")
private String one;
@JsonProperty("Two")
private String two;

So in the response I get both these field.

Question: How can I disable the field attribute "two" from coming in the response in my PROD environment ?

There is no any annotation or declaration that prevent properties from serialization on basis of environment. You can add `@JsonIgnore` annotation when you deployed your code to PROD. — Yagnesh Agola, Sep 17 '15 at 06:59

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 17 '15 at 07:04

0

You can define custom JsonSerializer for the class and check whether it's PROD in the serializer and skip the field. See an example here

answered Sep 17 '15 at 07:04

StanislavL

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 17 '15 at 05:57

-1

Declare your Output.java with JsonSerialize.Inclusion.NON_NULL

@JsonSerialize(
include=JsonSerialize.Inclusion.NON_NULL)
public class Output {

}

If you don't populate property "two" in Output.java, then this property wont appear in your final rest response.

answered Sep 17 '15 at 05:57

kswaughs

I need to populate the field anyways for logging. So cant give it to NULL only for PROD. – Melvins Sep 17 '15 at 06:06
Use @JsonIgnore annotation on private field two. – kswaughs Sep 17 '15 at 06:16
When using @JsonIgnore, it gets ignored for DEV environment as well. I just want it to be ignored for PROD alone. – Melvins Sep 17 '15 at 06:18
As StanislavL said, use JSonSerializer or use @JsonFilter – kswaughs Sep 17 '15 at 07:19

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