[Resteasy-developers] Any ideas regarding "conditional" markup

[Mike C. (mchack) <mc...@ci...>]

Would like to see if anyone has an idea as to how to produce conditional
output.

 

Problem: We have an application that has a directory function that
returns say a Directory Entry (DE). Users can specify privacy options on
a per property basis. So when returning the results of a directory
search, the response will depend upon who is doing the search as well as
the visibility of the properties. I can envision a number of potential
solutions.

 

1. Custom producer.

2. Enhance the getters of my DE class to filter (return null on a
conditional basis).

3. Have an enhanced annotation such as @XmlTransient that could also
take into account a custom condition.

 

Would like to hear if this is a pattern that anyone has thought about as
well as thoughts on the best method going forward. Should it be part of
the RestEasy Framework or is this custom enough that it really needs to
be handled on a per case basis?

 

Thanks

 

Mike Chack 
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