Exclude some attributes

[sayadi]

To avoid circular filling (and eventually a StackOverflow error), or for any other reason, it would be helpful to have the ability to exclude some attributes from being filled.

A common scenario in POJOs modeling tables in a relational database is some classes will reference each other in a ManyToMany relationship:

public ClassA {
   // Annotations for many to many relationship
   ClassB b;
}

public ClassB {
   // Annotations for many to many relationship
   ClassA a;
}

[daivanov]

You cannot have StackOverflow error as Podam will stop after 3 levels of objects are filled.

There are several ways to do what you want, but probably the best one consist of overriding boolean ClassAttributeApprover.approve(ClassAttribute attribute) in DefaultClassInfoStrategy (or whatever ClassInfoStrategy you are using).

[daivanov]

Closing this as this is not an issue.