Question

I’m writing resfull web service vai Jersey. Returning data in json.
Web service has 2 method, first returns User object and Second ArrayList of User Object;
This is my User Class

public class User {
    private int id;
    private String firstName;
    private String surName;
    private String address;
    private int status
    }

The problem is that i want to return User with only id, firtName and surName in the first method, output example: {"id":"1","firstName":"William","surName":"Dodgson"}
and UserList with id, address in the second method,
output example:
[{"id":"1","address":"some address"}, {"id":"2","address":"some address"}]

How should i manage this ?

Answer 1

I don’t know jersey. But you can divide that class with inheritance.
Firt create a base user class :

public class User {
    private int id;
    private String firstName;
    private String surName;
}

And extended class

public class UserMoreInfo extends User {

    private String address;
    private int status
    }

Finally in each method you can return distinct object.