I have a structure with circular references. And for debug purposes, I want to dump it. Basically as any format, but I chose JSON.

Since it can be any class, I chose GSON which doesn't needs JAXB annotations.

But GSON hits the circular references and recurses until StackOverflowError.

How can I limit GSON to

  • ignore certain class members? Both @XmlTransient and @JsonIgnore are not obeyed.

  • ignore certain object graph paths? E.g. I could instruct GSON not to serialize release.customFields.product.

  • go to the depth of at most 2 levels?

Related: Gson.toJson gives StackOverFlowError, how to get proper json in this case? (public static class)

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