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Nashwan D
Nashwan D

Reputation: 478

How to deserialize a JSON array of objects using Gson library?

I am facing an issue while I am trying to deserialize a JSON array of objects using the Gson library.

An example of the JSON array:

[
    {"ID":1,"Title":"Lion","Description":"bla bla","ImageURL":"http:\/\/localhost\/lion.jpg"},
    {"ID":1,"Title":"Tiger","Description":"bla bla","ImageURL":"http:\/\/localhost\/tiger.jpg"}
]

What do you think? What is the proper Java code to deserialize such a JSON response?

Upvotes: 20

Views: 29001

Answers (2)

Almaz Salyakhov
Almaz Salyakhov

Reputation: 31

For example your service has such response

[ new SomeObject(), new SomeObject(), new SomeObject() ] - this is jsonArray

SomeObject - is a class instance of that your array is contains.

You should use special class TypeToken (docs here https://sites.google.com/site/gson/gson-user-guide)

Type type = new TypeToken<List<SomeObject>>(){}.getType();



String jsonArray = restResponse.getPayload(); - you get response as String
List<SomeObject > list = new Gson().fromJson(jsonArray, type);

Done!

Upvotes: 0

Kirstein
Kirstein

Reputation: 893

To deserialize a JSONArray you need to use TypeToken. You can read more about it from GSON user guide. Example code:

@Test
public void JSON() {
    Gson gson = new Gson();
    Type listType = new TypeToken<List<MyObject>>(){}.getType();
    // In this test code i just shove the JSON here as string.
    List<Asd> asd = gson.fromJson("[{'name':\"test1\"}, {'name':\"test2\"}]", listType);
}

If you have a JSONArray then you can use 

...
JSONArray jsonArray = ...
gson.fromJson(jsonArray.toString(), listType);
...

Upvotes: 56

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