Spring Data Rest: Different resource returned from received

Question

In Spring Data Rest, is it possible to return a different resource to a request, and receive a different resource object when reading from the request body?

An example when adding a user:

{"username": "admin", "password": "123456"}

An example when querying a user:

{"username": "admin"}

As you can see above, when someone adds a user, they would have to send the password, but I would like to not send the password when sending it as response.

Answer 1

You should just be able to add @JsonIgnore to the relevant property. That would always hide the password when the user object is marshalled.

public class user {
    private String username;
    private String password;

    @JsonIgnore
    private String getPassword() {
        return password;
    }

    @JsonProperty
    private void setPassword(String password) {
        this.password = password;
    }
}