I am developing an Android App which is sending a JSON using Android Retrofit (it converts a POJO class in a JSON). It is working fine, but I need to ignore in the sending of JSON one element from the POJO class.
Does anyone know any Android Retrofit annotation?
Example
POJO Class:
public class sendingPojo
{
long id;
String text1;
String text2;//--> I want to ignore that in the JSON
getId(){return id;}
setId(long id){
this.id = id;
}
getText1(){return text1;}
setText1(String text1){
this.text1 = text1;
}
getText2(){return text2;}
setText2(String text2){
this.text2 = text2;
}
}
Interface Sender ApiClass
public interface SvcApi {
@POST(SENDINGPOJO_SVC_PATH)
public sendingPojo addsendingPojo(@Body sendingPojo sp);
}
Any idea how to ignore text2?
I found an alternative solution if you don't want to use new GsonBuilder().excludeFieldsWithoutExposeAnnotation().create()
.
Just including transient
in the variable I need to ignore.
So, the POJO class finally:
public class sendingPojo {
long id;
String text1;
transient String text2;//--> I want to ignore that in the JSON
getId() {
return id;
}
setId(long id) {
this.id = id;
}
getText1() {
return text1;
}
setText1(String text1) {
this.text1 = text1;
}
getText2() {
return text2;
}
setText2(String text2) {
this.text2 = text2;
}
}
I hope it helps
Mark the desired fields with the
@Expose annotation, such as:
@Expose private String id;
Leave out any fields that you do not want to serialize. Then just create your Gson object this way:
Gson gson = new GsonBuilder().excludeFieldsWithoutExposeAnnotation().create();
You can configure Retrofit by adding the GSON object from the GSONBuilder into your ConverterFactory, see my example below:
private static UsuarioService getUsuarioService(String url) {
return new Retrofit.Builder().client(getClient()).baseUrl(url)
.addConverterFactory(GsonConverterFactory.create(getGson())).build()
.create(UsuarioService.class);
}
private static OkHttpClient getClient() {
return new OkHttpClient.Builder().connectTimeout(5, MINUTES).readTimeout(5, MINUTES)
.build();
}
private static Gson getGson() {
return new GsonBuilder().excludeFieldsWithoutExposeAnnotation().create();
}
To ignore the field elements simply add @Expose(deserialize = false, serialize = false) to your properties or none, and for (de)serialize your fields elements you can add the @Expose() annotations with empty values to your properties.
@Entity(indexes = {
@Index(value = "id DESC", unique = true)
})
public class Usuario {
@Id(autoincrement = true)
@Expose(deserialize = false, serialize = false)
private Long pkey; // <- Ignored in JSON
private Long id; // <- Ignored in JSON, no @Expose annotation
@Index(unique = true)
@Expose
private String guid; // <- Only this field will be shown in JSON.
If you are using Kotlin + Retrofit + Moshi
(I tested this)
In case where you want to conditionally ignore fields, you can set it to null.
data class User(var id: String, var name: string?)
val user = User()
user.id = "some id"
user.name = null
The Json generated would be
user{
"id": "some id"
}