RESTEASY - returning the same object with and without a list

I have a bean that includes several properties and a list. E.g.

public class Person {
    @XmlElement
    public String getName() { }

    @XmlElement
    public List getFriends() { }
}

I now want to have an interface that sometimes returns a list of Persons with their friends sometimes without:

@GET
@Path("getPersonOnly")
public List<Person> getPersonOnly();

@GET
@Path("getPersonWithFriends")
public List<Person> getPersonWithFriends();

The implementation of these methods is very similar. The only difference is that one of them will not include in the xml r开发者_Python百科eturned the list of friends.

Any ideas on how to solve this? My initial thought was to subclass Person to PersonWithNoFriends which will not have the getFriends annotated.

Thanks,

Assaf

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In your getPersonOnly(), load the person, setFriends to NULL and the element won't be in the output.