In this blog post, we'll give you a list of some alternatives to Gson. Since it's such an important task of converting Java objects to JSON and vice versa, quite a few libraries popped up. We personally like Gson a lot, but there is no reason not to broaden one's …

In this blog post, we'll tackle one of the most complicated issues of any data mapping: dates and times. Over the last few decades programmers have developed hundreds of different formats of stating the date and time. Keep reading, if you want to learn how you can utilize some standard …

In this blog post, we'll combine the knowledge of two previous blog posts in one practical use case. You've learned how we can write custom deserializer and how you can annotate model classes with @JsonAdapter. In the next few sections, we'll use those to build a custom deserializer, which correctly …

In the past 30+ blog posts we've shown you almost every little detail about Gson. It's time to take a step back and look at the big picture. In this blog post, we'll go through some common mistakes & issues you'll run into when using Gson in your production apps. …

In the previous Gson blog post, we've introduced how you can change the (de)serialization naming of a model property. If your server expects (or sends) properties with a different name, you can use @SerializedName to work around the difference. In this blog post, we'll show you how you can …

The APIs you've to integrate into your applications will evolve over time. Usually you can simply update your models to the newer version, but this is not always possible. If your application has to deal with multiple versions of the same model, this is the perfect tutorial for you. You'll …

In this blog post, we'll explore a topic which might be very interesting for some of you: low level parsing with Gson. In the past 25+ blog posts, we've reiterated that the best and bug-free way is to use as much automatic mapping as possible. Nevertheless, in some cases, you …

In this blog post, we'll extend the journey on writing a custom Gson serializer. In the first part we've shown all basics of setting up the code to customize Gson's JSON serialization. If you haven't read it yet, you might want to do so now, since this blog post is …