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I'm trying to learn Gson and I'm struggling with field exclusion. Here are my classes public class Student { private Long id; private String firstName = "Philip"; private String middleName = "J."; private String initials = "P.F"; private String lastName = "Fry"; private Country country; private Country countryOfBirth; } public class Country { private Long id; private String name; private Object other; } I can use the GsonBuilder and add an ExclusionStrategy for a field name like firstName or country but I can't seem to manage to exclude properties of certain fields like country.name . Using the method public boolean shouldSkipField(FieldAttributes fa) , FieldAttributes doesn't contain enough information to match the field with a filter like country.name . P.S: I want to avoid annotations since I want to improve on this and use RegEx to filter fields out. Edit : I'm trying to see if it's possible to emulate the behavior of Struts2 JSON plugin using Gson <interceptor-ref name="json"> <param name="enableSMD">true</param> <param name="excludeProperties"> login.password, studentList.*\.sin </param> </interceptor-ref> Edit: I reopened the question with the following addition: I added a second field with the same type to futher clarify this problem. Basically I want to exclude country.name but not countrOfBirth.name . I also don't want to exclude Country as a type. So the types are the same it's the actual place in t

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