declaring optional properties

[jechlin]

Hi - I'm quite new to this so perhaps I am missing something obvious.

I'm looking for a way to declare a property as optional (https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/interfaces.html#optional-properties).

I see that I can use declarePropertiesAsOptional , which makes them all optional, and @transient, to exclude them, but I can't find a way of making particular properties optional.

Thanks in advance

[jechlin]

Duh, found optionalAnnotations 2 seconds later.
Thanks a lot.

[vojtechhabarta]

Hi, great to hear that it works for you.

BTW why do you have symbols of former Soviet Union (hammer and sickle etc.) in your profile picture?
Troops of this former state invaded Czechoslovakia (my country) in 1968 and stayed here for more than 20 years. This destroyed our freedom and democracy.

[jechlin]

It does work for me, appreciate your work on it.

Yes, I was aware of the history of the Czech Rep, and have visited your country several times. I needed a big red star, the hammer and sickle was incidental other than I like the picture.

I appreciate though it can cause offence and might seem insensitive, and I plan to change it within the next 3 weeks.

While we are talking - is special treatment given to @Class properties, ie the one usually used for polymorphic types in jackson? Because for me it's generating declarations with the short class name, rather than "string".

Thanks again.

[vojtechhabarta]

Yes, there is special treatment for Jackson 2 polymorphic types. See Tagged unions. It can be disabled using disableTaggedUnions parameter.

[jechlin]

Awesome, thank you.

Avatar updated by the way, takes a while to percolate.

[vojtechhabarta]

Thank you too 😄