The Gson library provided a simple approach to exclude fields from serialization using a transient modifier. If we make a field in a Java class as transient then Gson can ignore for both serialization and deserialization.
Example
import com.google.gson.*; public class GsonTransientFieldTest { public static void main(String[] args) { Gson gson = new GsonBuilder().setPrettyPrinting().create(); Person p = new Person("Raja", "Ramesh", 28, 35000.00); String jsonStr = gson.toJson(p); System.out.println(jsonStr); } } //Person class class Person { private String firstName; private transient String lastName; private int age; private transient double salary; public Person(String firstName, String lastName, int age, double salary) { super(); this.firstName = firstName; this.lastName = lastName; this.age = age; this.salary = salary; } }
Output
{ "firstName": "Raja", "age": 28 }