In this blog post, we'll look on how to implement custom Gson deserialization. If your server sends you data in a format, which doesn't match your client's application data model, keep reading! Of course, this will not be the only post in our Gson series. If you're interested in the …

Due to the popularity of the Retrofit blog post series published within the Future Studio University, and the positive feedback on our Retrofit book, we’ve decided to publish a series on Gson and consequently, as with a bunch of our Android series, an additional book. A vast majority of …

In this blog post, we'll explore how we can customize the Gson serialization of Java objects. There are many reasons why you might want to change the serialization, e.g. simplifying your model to reduce the amount of data sent or removing personal information. Now we'll look into the simplification …

In this blog post, we'll explore how Gson deals with Java generics. Generics are a challenge for any data mapping library, since they bring an uncertainty with them. If you want to review Java generics, use cases and implications, feel free to read up on the Wikipedia article. Gson is …

In this blog post we'll deal with one particularly nasty topic: circular references. You might have heard about circular references in your computer science or math class on graphs. In a more practical explanation: it deals with the case when objects have a nested property to a different object, which …

At the beginning of this series, we've shown you how to map nested objects, arrays and lists, Java maps and more. In this blog post, you'll learn how to (de)serialize Java enums. Of course, this is not the only post in our Gson series. If you're interested in the …

In our last Gson blog post we've looked at the option to make the JSON conversion lenient. Lenient allows the incoming JSON to be non-standard to some extend and Gson will still be able to parse it to Java objects. In this blog post we'll look at a case of …

The formatting of JSON content has to fulfill some specific rules to be compliant with the standard. The standard is described in the RFC4627 specification. It lays the foundation on how keys and values are separated, how arrays are structured and so on. In this blog post we'll explore how …