From 1f3f9b1272791999ac14e6a65fe443862ca20394 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rossen Stoyanchev <rstoyanchev@vmware.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2020 21:17:12 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Explain how to provide serialization view programmatically

Closes gh-25596
---
 src/docs/asciidoc/web/webmvc.adoc | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/docs/asciidoc/web/webmvc.adoc b/src/docs/asciidoc/web/webmvc.adoc
index efce2b49becc..c20dc2009150 100644
--- a/src/docs/asciidoc/web/webmvc.adoc
+++ b/src/docs/asciidoc/web/webmvc.adoc
@@ -2638,6 +2638,25 @@ which allows rendering only a subset of all fields in an Object. To use it with
 controller method. Use a composite interface if you need to activate multiple views.
 ====
 
+If you want to do the above programmatically, instead of declaring an `@JsonView` annotation,
+wrap the return value with `MappingJacksonValue` and use it to supply the serialization view:
+
+[source,java,indent=0]
+[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
+----
+	@RestController
+	public class UserController {
+
+		@GetMapping("/user")
+		public MappingJacksonValue getUser() {
+			User user = new User("eric", "7!jd#h23");
+			MappingJacksonValue value = new MappingJacksonValue(user);
+			value.setSerializationView(User.WithoutPasswordView.class);
+			return value;
+		}
+	}
+----
+
 For controllers relying on view resolution, simply add the serialization view class
 to the model: