Welcome back to another blog post in our Gson series. After reviewing the basics of Gson, model annotations and mapping of nested objects, we'll go on to a core feature: mapping of Arrays and Lists. Almost every data model out there utilizes some form of list. Fortunately, Gson makes it …

In the Gson blog posts, we've explored the basic functionality. In this blog post, we'll move more towards more realistic data and look at nested objects. You'll learn how easy it is to work with objects, which includes additional complex data. This is only one post in our comprehensive Gson …

After publishing over 50 Retrofit blog posts we've gathered enough feedback that a lot of developers would love an extensive introduction to Google's Gson. Gson is a very powerful library to map data structures represented as JSON to Java objects. Of course, it also supports the other way around and …

Recently, I ran into a situation where I receive a list of objects in JSON from a REST endpoint. So far, this is nothing unusual and not a problem. However, the catch was that the objects were polymorphic and it was required to parse the child-class-specific fields. The previous solution …