com.google.gson.annotations

Annotation Type Since

@Retention(value=RUNTIME)
@Target(value={FIELD,TYPE})
public @interface Since

An annotation that indicates the version number since a member or a type has been present. This annotation is useful to manage versioning of your Json classes for a web-service.

This annotation has no effect unless you build Gson with a GsonBuilder and invoke GsonBuilder.setVersion(double) method.

Here is an example of how this annotation is meant to be used:

 public class User {
   private String firstName;
   private String lastName;
   @Since(1.0) private String emailAddress;
   @Since(1.0) private String password;
   @Since(1.1) private Address address;
 }
 

If you created Gson with new Gson(), the toJson() and fromJson() methods will use all the fields for serialization and deserialization. However, if you created Gson with Gson gson = new GsonBuilder().setVersion(1.0).create() then the toJson() and fromJson() methods of Gson will exclude the address field since it's version number is set to 1.1.

Author:

Inderjeet Singh, Joel Leitch

Required Element Summary

Required Elements

Modifier and Type	Required Element and Description
double	value the value indicating a version number since this member or type has been present.

Element Detail

value

public abstract double value

the value indicating a version number since this member or type has been present.