RESTful Java Web Services - Third Edition

Using Jersey's role-based entity data filtering

The entity-filtering feature offered by the Jersey framework allows you to conveniently filter out any non-relevant data from the response entity. To use this feature, create custom entity-filtering annotations based on @org.glassfish.jersey.message.filtering.EntityFiltering and apply them on model entity fields that you want to filter out conditionally. Later, while generating a response for the REST API call, runtime will match the entity filtering annotation present on the resource method with the annotation present on the entity fields and include only those matching fields in the response content.

To learn more about entity filtering offerings in the Jersey framework, read the following ...