render myObject as JSON
This is all well and good, but I have a few fundamental issues with this. First off, attributes like fully-qualified class name and the database primary key are returned. I don't really want to expose internal information to client side applications. It also doesn't allow any renaming of the attributes. Say you have a String called firstName using camel case in your domain object, it returns that to the client. What if you want the API to return first_name?
The answer was a lot simpler then my searching could muster, and that is to use the template system, Sitemesh in this case, to render exactly what you want in JSON as you would if you were rendering HTML. OK, it's a bit of a headache, but you have complete control over the content and style. Combine that with a one liner in the controller to set the content type, and you're flying.
response.contentType = "text/javascript"
