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Madmenyo
Madmenyo

Reputation: 8584

Serialization of set

I am trying to write my own Set serializer, HashSet specifically. This because the default output of such a set holding enum elements looks like this:

modifier: {
    amount: 1
    criteriaSet: {
        class: java.util.HashSet //<--- bothers me
        items: [
            NONE                
            ADD
            MULTIPLY
        ]
    }
}

So I thought I write my own serializer. this is what the write method looks like.

@Override
public void write(Json json, HashSet object, Class knownType) {
    json.writeObjectStart();
    for (Object o : object)
    {
        if (o instanceof Modifier.Criteria)
            json.writeValue("name", ((Modifier.Criteria) o).name());
    }
    json.writeObjectEnd();
}

This works but it requires me to name the field and thus the output is like this:

modifier: {
    amount: 1
    criteriaSet: {
        name: NONE
        name: ADD
        name: MULTIPLY
    }
}

This works but since the default Set serializer does not write the field names (name:) I want that too. Just writing the enum name yields an error json.writeValue(((Modifier.Criteria) o).name()); : java.lang.IllegalStateException: Name must be set.

I have tried this for EnumSet first because EnumSet works more efficient with sets of Enum but I ran into problems too. I am looking for a clean solution to store Enum values into a Set.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1053

Answers (1)

Xoppa
Xoppa

Reputation: 8123

I guess you mean that you want it to be an json array ([..]) instead of json object ({...}). In that case use writeArrayStart() and writeArrayEnd(). See also: https://github.com/libgdx/libgdx/wiki/Reading-and-writing-JSON

Upvotes: 2

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