[LANG-1677] It should be possible to exclude fields in ReflectionDiffBuilder

• Type: Wish
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.12.0
• Fix Version/s: 3.13.0
• Component/s: lang.builder.*
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Dennis Baerten
• Created: 21/Nov/21 14:08
• Updated: 04/Jun/23 18:35
• Resolved: 04/Jun/23 18:35

Description

When using ReflectionDiffBuilder to make a diff between two object it will be default include all fields. As stated in the documentation static and transient fields are excluded.

Using the transient modifier in combination with other frameworks ( such as Hibernate ) also has a side affect that those fields are not persisted.

The use case I'm trying to solve it making a diff of an object that get's updated and has a LastModificationDate and LastModificationUser and thus will always be a field in the diff.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #838