Ability to change active JsonView on submodels

[f-aubert]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

It should be possible to specify a View for processing (serializing) a property.

Describe the solution you'd like

The proposed annotation, JsonApplyView, would be supported by jackson-databind.

Usage example

public class Outer {
   @JsonApplyView(ViewA.class)
   public Inner value1;

   @JsonApplyView(ViewB.class)
   public Inner value2;
}

Additional context

See FasterXML/jackson-annotations#78 for the whole discussion

[f-aubert]

@cowtowncoder please have a look at my fork and commit 0064c6c

[cowtowncoder]

@f-aubert I can do that; but you can also submit PRs (usually "Draft" if not yet fully fleshed out).

[f-aubert]

@cowtowncoder I didn't know of the Draft mode, would you like to review some of it on my fork first, or do you prefer I submit a Draft PR now. I will do my best to ease the work for you so it can be accepted quickly (since my project depends on it in order to be migrated to Jackson 3 / Spring 7 / Spring Boot 4).

[cowtowncoder]

@f-aubert yeah, PRs are easier to diff.

On urgency: note that new features need to go in new minor releases, and 3.2.0 is probably 2+ months out at this point.

[f-aubert]

@cowtowncoder : Ok here are two PRs as Draft. Let me know if I shall mark them ready for review, unless you are able to do it yourself. As for "urgency", when we are through maybe you'll agree to release an 3.2.0-alpha1 or 3.2.0-rc1 soon :-)