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Allow domain object '@Transient' properties to still be serialized [DATAREST-231]

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Nick Weedon opened DATAREST-231 and commented

It would be useful to be able to create a 'view' of the underlying data by allowing '@Transient' properties to be serialized.

This could be done in a number of ways, here are a two that come to mind:

  1. Serialize @Transient properties by default, therefore relying on the developer to use the @JsonIgnore annotiation at their discretion.
  2. Only serialize @Transient fields that also have an affixed @RestResource annotation of some kind.

I'm not sure if this 'runs against the grain' of the project in some way but I think it seems like a logical feature even for a 'datacentric' web service. The reason I believe it to be logical is that even at the database level there exists such a mechanism in the form of being able to create a 'View' table.


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