I have requirement where I need to convert java object to json.
I am using Gson for that but i need the converter to only serialize the non null or not empty values.
For example:
//my java object looks likeclass TestObject{ String test1; String test2; OtherObject otherObject = new OtherObject();}
now my Gson instance to convert this object to json looks like
Gson gson = new Gson();TestObject obj = new TestObject();obj.test1 = "test1";obj.test2 = "";String jsonStr = gson.toJson(obj);println jsonStr;
In the above print, the result is
{"test1":"test1", "test2":"", "otherObject":{}}
Here i just wanted the result to be
{"test1":"test1"}
Since the test2 is empty and otherObject is empty, i don't want them to be serialized to json data.
Btw, I am using Groovy/Grails so if there is any plugin for this that would be good, if not any suggestion to customize the gson serialization class would be good.