Annotation to ignore all properties except the ones specified

[cen1]

I've been googling around and on SO but couldn't really find anything similar. Basically a lot of times I want something like @JsonIgnoreAllPopertiesExcept({"this_one", "and_this_one"}), so the opposite of @JsonIgnoreProperties. In real world usage scenarios, more often than not it seems that I need to ignore almost all properties from the child entity except a few. If my child entity has 20 properties, I have to write 15 names in @JsonIgnoreProperties but with this new annotation I could just specify the ones I want and all others should be ignored. Hopefully that makes sense.

[cowtowncoder]

So, like this existing issue?

FasterXML/jackson-databind#1296

If so, yes, I grok and like the idea. Was hoping to work on it for 2.9, but unfortunately seems unlikely there's time.

[cen1]

Yes, exactly like that. I'm glad the proposal already exists.

[cowtowncoder]

Ok thank you verifying. I agree it is a good idea.

[RahulKwani]

Hi,

Is there any update on implementing the mentioned feature??

[cowtowncoder]

@Rahulkesharwani as per earlier notes issue is:

FasterXML/jackson-databind#1296

and if there are updates, whoever works on issue should add notes to issue. I am not aware of any progress.