I have a ConfigInstance class which contains a password and a password_hash.
Now I want to serialize the object using gson but exclude the password field.
public class ConfigInstance {
public String database_address;
public int database_port;
public String database_user;
@Expose(serialize = false)
private String database_pass;
public String database_pass_hash;
public String GetPass() { return database_pass; }
public void Encrypt() { /* Creates the hash before serializing*/ }
public void Decrypt() { /* Creates the password after deserializing */}
}
As you can see, I have tried using @Expose(serialize = false) but it doesn't seem to do anything. Also I already set the field to private since I figured that this would "override" the @Expose
but running following code:
private void toFile(File file, ConfigInstance map) {
map.Encrypt();
Gson gson = new GsonBuilder().setPrettyPrinting().create();
String jsonConfig = gson.toJson(map);
FileWriter writer;
try {
writer = new FileWriter(file);
writer.write(jsonConfig);
writer.flush();
writer.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
System.out.println("Error exporting config: " + e.toString());
}
}
still results in the following file content without Errors:
{
"database_address": "127.0.0.1",
"database_port": 1521,
"database_user": "test",
"database_pass": "test1234",
"database_pass_hash": "B9FE2C011B59F0D0D383D70073E48A19"
}
So what am I doing wrong? I am pretty clueless right now and would appreciate any help since THIS doesn't seem to work.
Thanks in advance.
In order to get this result, you need to annotate all the fields with the @Expose:
public class ConfigInstance {
@Expose
public String database_address;
@Expose
public int database_port;
@Expose
public String database_user;
@Expose(serialize = false)
private String database_pass;
@Expose
public String database_pass_hash;
And configure Gson to only expose fields that are annotated and ignore the rest as shown in the following:
Gson gson = new GsonBuilder().excludeFieldsWithoutExposeAnnotation().setPrettyPrinting().create();
Then, you'll get:
{
"database_address": "127.0.0.1",
"database_port": 1521,
"database_user": "test",
"database_pass_hash": "B9FE2C011B59F0D0D383D70073E48A19"
}
Also, when deserialising the string you'll still have the password attribute as well.
Still, you have the possibility to configure a Gson Serializer to accomplish this.