ExampleMatcher.withIgnorePath is fetching property path that is ignored

Question

I have an entity which has multiple property paths. I used Query By Example and ExampleMatcher to ignore some of the property path.

My entity looks like below, Employee.class

private Integer id;
private String name;
private String designation;

I wanted to show only the Name and Id from the entity(fields in the table). For that, I did the following,

ExampleMatcher exampleMatcher = ExampleMatcher.matching().withIgnoreNullValues().withIgnorePaths("designation");
Example<Employee> example = Example.of(entity, exampleMatcher);

But, the response returns all the values including the property given in the ignorePath.

Kindly assist me on how to ignore the property paths.

Answer 1

withIgnorePaths("designation") prevents query-by-example from applying a filter based on the example's designation value. It does not prevent designation from being populated in the query result.

If you want to exclude certain properties from the query result, use projections or query graphs (depending on which is a better fit for your particular use case). Not sure if there's a way they can be used with query-by-example, though.

Answer 2

Am not sure if this will work

ExampleMatcher exampleMatcher = ExampleMatcher.matching().withIgnorePaths("designation").withIgnoreNullValues();

I just added withIgnorePaths first.

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