Question

I have a simple class for giving out count and db cursor information.

public class Cursor
{
    public String cursor = null;
    public int count = -1;
}

I do not wish to send count and cursor (while serialization) if they are null or -1 which are set by default.

Researching, I figured out that I should be using a view but I cannot figure out how to use it and the view implementation to avoid the default values.

Deserialization is not required for this class.

Thanks.

Answer 1

If you use Jackson you can give

@JsonInclude(Include.NON_NULL) 
public class Cursor
{
     public String cursor = null;
     public Integer count = null;
}

I have changed the int to Integer when you give -1 there a value for that field.
You can check this post also.