In the last two blog posts, we've shown you how to map list data and Java maps using Gson. In this blog post, you'll learn how to (de)serialize Java Sets. Of course, this is not the only post in our Gson series. If you're interested in the other topics, …

After publishing multiple blog posts on how to work with a variety of data types, we'll explore working with Java Maps in this one. You'll learn how to (de)serialize Java Maps using the Gson library. Of course, this is not the only post in our Gson series. If you're …

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 …

Last week we’ve learned about CoreOS’ components and technologies within the ecosystem. This week, we’re directly diving into the practical part and get our hands dirty. If you read the first post, you already know that CoreOS is an operating system geared towards high-availability. Setting up a cluster …

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 …