/**
* Configures Gson to apply the passed in exclusion strategy during deserialization. If this
* method is invoked numerous times with different exclusion strategy objects then the exclusion
* strategies that were added will be applied as a disjunction rule. This means that if one of the
* added exclusion strategies suggests that a field (or class) should be skipped then that field
* (or object) is skipped during its deserialization.
*
* @param strategy an exclusion strategy to apply during deserialization.
* @return a reference to this {@code GsonBuilder} object to fulfill the "Builder" pattern
* @since 1.7
*/
public GsonBuilder addDeserializationExclusionStrategy(ExclusionStrategy strategy) {
excluder = excluder.withExclusionStrategy(strategy, false, true);
return this;
}
/**
* Configures Gson to apply a set of exclusion strategies during both serialization and
* deserialization. Each of the {@code strategies} will be applied as a disjunction rule. This
* means that if one of the {@code strategies} suggests that a field (or class) should be skipped
* then that field (or object) is skipped during serialization/deserialization.
*
* @param strategies the set of strategy object to apply during object (de)serialization.
* @return a reference to this {@code GsonBuilder} object to fulfill the "Builder" pattern
* @since 1.4
*/
public GsonBuilder setExclusionStrategies(ExclusionStrategy... strategies) {
for (ExclusionStrategy strategy : strategies) {
excluder = excluder.withExclusionStrategy(strategy, true, true);
}
return this;
}