Preventing infinite recursion caused by circular references about gson-fire HOT 7 OPEN

@interappcci, @lalpert I think I will include my suggestion in my previous comment since it solves also a different requirement that was raised to me the other day.

Does that work for both of you in regards to the circular reference problem?

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Thanks for your suggestion, I will try to include this or something similar in 1.8.0 which I will be released around mid-oct.

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Any progress with this issue? Is there some solution to handle cyclic reference and avoid stack overflow (other than remove one side of bidirectional reference)?

Thanks!

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Is there some update about that?
I've been looking for a elegant solution to this since ever and nothing found.
For while..

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Sorry I've been super busy and lost track of this. I'll think about something based on what @lalpert suggested and will reply back here before the end of the week with a timeline.

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Would it work if I create an annotation to override the type adapter of a particular field in a class? For example

public class Person {
    private int id;
    private String name;
    private House house;
}

public class House {
    @TypeAdapter(SimplePersonAdapter.class)
    private Person owner;
}

public class SimplePersonAdapter implements TypeAdapter<Person> {
     //this class just serializes a simplified version of a Person object, for example it could just serialize the id
}

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I just need to cxclude a field at the second nested while serializing a object:

class User {
   String name;
   User createdBy;
}

class JsonRespWrap<D> {
   int code;
   User data;
  public JsonRespWrap (D data ) {
    this.data = data
    this.code = 0
  }
}

User user = userDao.findOne(1)

gson.toJson(new JsonRespWrap(user)); //  data.createdBy.createdBy should be excluded but data.createdBy should be included

// here is the exclusion stratety

public class GsonExclusionStrategy implements ExclusionStrategy{
   //...

    @Override
    public boolean shouldSkipClass(Class<?> clazz) {
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean shouldSkipField(FieldAttributes f) {
        //how to do whthout parent FieldAttributes (or a stack of FieldAttributeses) provided as parameter
    }
}

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