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javajsongson
Igor Karun
Igor Karun

Reputation: 629

How to parse incorrect JSON using Gson library

How can I parse this incorrect(I think) JSON using Gson library.

   {
    ......
       "phones":{
           "155193":"5556739386",
           "155194":"5555301828"
       }
     ......
   }

strings 155193 and 155194 are random values from server.

Need to use HashMap or any ideas?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 115

Answers (2)

giampaolo
giampaolo

Reputation: 6934

Your answer surely is right (don't forget to mark it as accepted!), but I have two notes that I put in form of answer.

First, if you can use also this way:

  public class ServerResponse {
     ...
     private Object phones;
     ...
  }

you will receive anycase a Map, of course in this case you'll need a cast. So your solutions is better. But if the server sends you a list of phones, it will work however (of course you will have a class cast exception in your code instead of a JSONParsingException

Second, your JSON is not invalid, if you look at this, you'll see that is correctly parsed. What does not work here, is that you cannot follow the POJO approach to parse. One way is like you answered, another possibility is to write an adapter that returs you.. a Map. So it won't be a big deal, it's better to let Gson handle the situation as you did.

Upvotes: 1

Igor Karun
Igor Karun

Reputation: 629

For this situation it helped me:

  public class ServerResponse {
     ...
     private HashMap<String, String> phones;
     ...
  }

Upvotes: 1

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