Stop Hardcoding DTOs: Dynamic Column‑Level Masking in Spring Boot
This article shows how to replace static DTO definitions with a zero‑intrusion, high‑concurrency solution for column‑level data masking in Spring Boot 3.5.0 by leveraging Jackson's serialization pipeline, a global Mixin, custom annotations, a contextual serializer, and a ResponseBodyAdvice that respects request‑scoped permissions.
