How can I ignore a specific value of a property?

Question

I'm trying to figure out how I can ignore a specific value of a property using Mixin.

For example, there is a class:

class MyClass {

  String name;   
}

I want to use a MixIn to ignore names with a value set to "ignoreThis" or "ignoreThat". Is there a way to ignore these specific values?

interface MixIn {

  @JsonIgnore
  String getName();   
}

Answer 1

I'm not sure this will work but you can give try:

Step 1: You need to create Custom Serializer and in that you need to Serialize only if the value is not ignored

eg: if (!"ignoreThis".equals(value) && !"ignoreThat".equals(value)) {

// code }

Step 2: You can replace add this snippet to your interface :

@JsonSerialize(using = NameSerializer.class) String getName();

then Apply the mixin to MyClass

then Test serialization

May be it will work