Using Gson, I'm trying to de-serialize a a nested, generic class. The class structure looks like the following:
Wrapper object, simplified, but normally holds other properties such as statusMessage
, which are returned along with the data
-field from the server:
public class Response<T> {
private List<T> data = null;
public List<T> getData() { return this.data; }
}
Simple class, the expected output from data
-field above (though as an array):
public class Language {
public String alias;
public String label;
}
Usage:
Type type = new TypeToken<Response<Language>>() {}.getType();
Response<Language> response = new Gson().fromJson(json, type);
List<Language> languages = response.getData();
Language l = languages.get(0);
System.out.println(l.alias); // Error occurs here
Where the json
-variable is something like this.
However, when doing this, I recieve the following exception (on line 3, last code example):
ClassCastException: com.google.gson.internal.StringMap cannot be cast to book.Language
The exception ONLY occurs when storing the data from getData()
into a variable (or when used as one).
Any help would be highly appreciated.