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package com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation;
import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
import java.lang.annotation.Target;
/**
* Annotation used to indicate when value of the annotated property (when
* used for a field, method or constructor parameter), or all
* properties of the annotated class, is to be serialized.
* Without annotation property values are always included, but by using
* this annotation one can specify simple exclusion rules to reduce
* amount of properties to write out.
*
* @since 2.0
*/
@Target({ElementType.ANNOTATION_TYPE, ElementType.METHOD, ElementType.FIELD,
ElementType.TYPE, ElementType.PARAMETER})
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JacksonAnnotation
public @interface JsonInclude
{
/**
* Inclusion rule to use.
*/
public Include value() default Include.ALWAYS;
/*
/**********************************************************
/* Value enumerations needed
/**********************************************************
*/
/**
* Enumeration used with {@link JsonInclude}
* to define which properties
* of Java Beans are to be included in serialization.
*
* Note: Jackson 1.x had similarly named ("Inclusion") enumeration included
* in JsonSerialize annotation: it is not deprecated
* and this value used instead.
*/
public enum Include
{
/**
* Value that indicates that property is to be always included,
* independent of value of the property.
*/
ALWAYS,
/**
* Value that indicates that only properties with non-null
* values are to be included.
*/
NON_NULL,
/**
* Value that indicates that only properties that have values
* that differ from default settings (meaning values they have
* when Bean is constructed with its no-arguments constructor)
* are to be included. Value is generally not useful with
* {@link java.util.Map}s, since they have no default values;
* and if used, works same as {@link #ALWAYS}.
*/
NON_DEFAULT,
/**
* Value that indicates that only properties that have values
* that values that are null or what is considered empty are
* not to be included.
*
* Default emptiness is defined for following type:
*
* - For {@link java.util.Collection}s and {@link java.util.Map}s,
* method
isEmpty() is called;
*
* - For Java arrays, empty arrays are ones with length of 0
*
* - For Java {@link java.lang.String}s,
length() is called,
* and return value of 0 indicates empty String (note that String.isEmpty()
* was added in Java 1.6 and as such can not be used by Jackson
*
*
* and for other types, non-null values are to be included.
*
* Note that this default handling can be overridden by custom
* JsonSerializer implementation: if method isEmpty()
* is overridden, it will be called to see if non-null values are
* considered empty (null is always considered empty).
*/
NON_EMPTY
;
}
}