Handling request headers isn’t a use case that comes to mind immediately when thinking through the development process of your app. You might think of routes, requests, appropriate responses and the design of your views. And at some point, you’re in a more advanced development stage and see …

Node.js developers are very familiar with the callback pattern. During the last years, a common practice has taken place within the community: error-first callbacks. That was quite sufficient for the last years. Now that promises and generator functions are around the corner, it’s time to start thinking outside …

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 our last Retrofit post we've given you an introduction to converters. In this blog post, we want to dive deeper into the most common format: JSON. After demonstrating the integration of the Gson converter, we'll also show you how to customize Gson's mapping rules. If you prefer to catch …

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 …