Prune multiple JSON branches with play-json

Imagine you want to prune/drop/remove the id and owner branches from this json payload

{
  "attr1": "value1",
  "attr2": "value2",
  "attr3": "value3",
  "owner": "foo@bar.com",
  "id" :{ "$oid":"aaaaaaaa"}
}

When transforming json with play-json transformers if you want to prune branches you must use the following composition :

val jsonDropKey= (__ \ 'id ).json.prune andThen 
                 (__ \ 'owner ).json.prune 

The following will NOT work:

val jsonDropKey= ((__ \ 'id ).json.prune and 
                  (__ \ 'owner ).json.prune).reduce 

The reason is that the and ... reduce syntax will apply each transformers to the whole input and merge (reduce) the result. On the contrary andThen will apply the transformers sequentially passing the result of one transformer on to the next.