Interface ExclusionStrategy

src/main/java/com/google/gson/ExclusionStrategy.java:96–109

A strategy (or policy) definition that is used to decide whether or not a field or top-level class should be serialized or deserialized as part of the JSON output/input. For serialization, if the #shouldSkipClass(Class) method returns false then that class or field type will not be part of t

 * @since 1.4
 */
public interface ExclusionStrategy {

  /**
   * @param f the field object that is under test
   * @return true if the field should be ignored; otherwise false
   */
  public boolean shouldSkipField(FieldAttributes f);

  /**
   * @param clazz the class object that is under test
   * @return true if the class should be ignored; otherwise false
   */
  public boolean shouldSkipClass(Class<?> clazz);
}