Suggestion: use transient to mark fields not for serialization

[miguel-porto]

Hi, I would find the use of transient convenient (in addition to the annotation @Expose) to mark fields that are not meant to be serialized.
The reason is that I may want to have a JavaBean for multiple purposes (e.g. I may want to serialize it with Gson also), and it would be more convenient if all the serializers I may use understand the same keyword transient equally. Moreover, it would be more convenient not to have to import com.arangodb in the JavaBean because I may want to have a JavaBean that lives seperately, independent of the underlying DB, for example.
What do you think?
Cheers,

[mvollmary]

Hi,
thank you for your ideas. I wanted to optimize this part already longer.
I have implemented it now that you can register an annotation to filter or name fields within the de-/serialization process. You can test this with version 4.1.5-SNAPSHOT. I will release version 4.1.5 within this week. If you have any improvement suggestions please let me know.

In ArangoDB.Builder you will find the methods annotationFieldFilter and annotationFieldNaming with which you can add your annotations and their logic for serialize, deserialize and serialized-name:

ArangoDB arangoDB = new ArangoDB.Builder()
    .annotationFieldFilter(Transient.class, new VPackAnnotationFieldFilter<Transient>() {
      @Override
      public boolean serialize(final Transient annotation) {
        return true;
      }

      @Override
      public boolean deserialize(final Transient annotation) {
        return true;
      }
    }).build();

Thanks & Best
Mark

[miguel-porto]

I see - this way I can pass the annotation logic to my package only, thus making it independent of the DB. My suggestion, originally, was about using the java's transient field qualifier (not annotation) for this purpose, but your solution is ok anyway!
Thanks, all the best
Miguel

[mvollmary]

Ohh, I have misunderstood you. I had not even thought of that.
I have it implemented yet.

Thanks!
Best
Mark

[miguel-porto]

It was just a suggestion, don't take it too seriously if you don't think it's useful!
Thanks!
Miguel

[mvollmary]

I think it's useful, I just did not think about it before.