On 6/6/07, Kris Zyp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Would it be possible to add a property attribute "transient"? It would not
> need any special treatment, it would serve purely as a marker. Java has this
> as a property attribute/field modifier, and it is very helpful for defining
> what fields should be included in persistence/serialization. The only
> implementation detail that this might effect is that I believe that it would
> be most proper if "toJSONString" ignored properties that had been marked as
> "transient". So if one declared an instance variable:
> class A{
> transient var b
> }
> b would not be included in toJSONString serializations, and other
> persistence/serialization strategies could use introspection to be aware
> that such values should not be saved. Any chance this could make it in the
> spec?
As this is probably just one more approach to customizing JSON
serialization, and we're not trying to do much with that (despite
extensive debate on that list), my guess is "no".
--lars
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