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Gson is Google's open-source library for serializing and deserializing Java objects to/from JSON.

Gson is Google's open-source library for serializing and deserializing Java objects to/from JSON.

The Gson project is hosted at and available for download from https://github.com/google/gson and licensed using the Apache License 2.0

Latest release: 2.8.6 released on Oct 4, 2019

Project Links

  • Gson API: Javadocs for the current Gson release
  • Gson guide: This guide contains examples on how to use Gson in your code.
  • Gson Roadmap: Details on upcoming releases

Alternatives

Alternative Java-to-JSON binding solutions with similar APIs include FastJSON, Jackson, and svenson. Yet more Java-to-JSON libraries are listed at json.org.

Performance

The latest performance benchmarks for these and other JSON serialization and deserialization solutions for Java are available at https://github.com/eishay/jvm-serializers/wiki.

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Android Studio: Add jar as library?

I'm trying to use the new Android Studio but I can't seem to get it working correctly. I'm using the Gson library to serialize/deserialize JSON-objects. But the library somehow isn't included in the build. I had created a new project with just a…
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Representing null in JSON

What is the preferred method for returning null values in JSON? Is there a different preference for primitives? For example, if my object on the server has an Integer called "myCount" with no value, the most correct JSON for that value would…
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Google Gson - deserialize list object? (generic type)

I want to transfer a list object via Google Gson, but I don't know how to deserialize generic types. What I tried after looking at this (BalusC's answer): MyClass mc = new Gson().fromJson(result, new List(){}.getClass()); but then I get…
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Gson: How to exclude specific fields from Serialization without annotations

I'm trying to learn Gson and I'm struggling with field exclusion. Here are my classes public class Student { private Long id; private String firstName = "Philip"; private String middleName …
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Jackson Vs. Gson

After searching through some existing libraries for JSON, I have finally ended up with these two: Jackson Google GSon I am a bit partial towards GSON, but word on the net is that GSon suffers from a certain celestial performance issue (as of Sept…
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Gson: Directly convert String to JsonObject (no POJO)

Can't seem to figure this out. I'm attempting JSON tree manipulation in GSON, but I have a case where I do not know or have a POJO to convert a string into, prior to converting to JsonObject. Is there a way to go directly from a String to…
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GSON throwing "Expected BEGIN_OBJECT but was BEGIN_ARRAY"?

I'm trying to parse a JSON string like this one [ { "updated_at":"2012-03-02 21:06:01", "fetched_at":"2012-03-02 21:28:37.728840", "description":null, "language":null, "title":"JOHN", …
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How can I convert JSON to a HashMap using Gson?

I'm requesting data from a server which returns data in the JSON format. Casting a HashMap into JSON when making the request wasn't hard at all but the other way seems to be a little tricky. The JSON response looks like this: { "header" : { …
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Converting JSON data to Java object

I want to be able to access properties from a JSON string within my Java action method. The string is available by simply saying myJsonString = object.getJson(). Below is an example of what the string can look like: { 'title':…
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Gson - convert from Json to a typed ArrayList

Using the Gson library, how do I convert a JSON string to an ArrayList of a custom class JsonLog? Basically, JsonLog is an interface implemented by different kinds of logs made by my Android app--SMS logs, call logs, data logs--and this ArrayList is…
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GSON - Date format

I'm trying to have a custom date format in Gson output, but .setDateFormat(DateFormat.FULL) doesn't seem to work and it the same with .registerTypeAdapter(Date.class, new DateSerializer()). It's like Gson doesn't care about the object "Date" and…
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JSON parsing using Gson for Java

I would like to parse data from JSON which is of type String. I am using Google Gson. I have: jsonLine = " { "data": { "translations": [ { "translatedText": "Hello world" } ] } } "; and my class is: public class JsonParsing{ …
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Is it OK to use Gson instance as a static field in a model bean (reuse)?

Here's the model I implemented: public class LoginSession { private static final Gson gson = new Gson(); private String id; private String name; private long timestamp; public LoginSession(String id, String name) { …
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Unable to create converter for my class in Android Retrofit library

Im migrating from using Volley to Retrofit, I already have gson class that I used before for converting JSONObject reponse to a object that implements gson annotations. When I'm trying to make http get request using retrofit but then my app crashes…
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"Expected BEGIN_OBJECT but was STRING at line 1 column 1"

I have this method: public static Object parseStringToObject(String json) { String Object = json; Gson gson = new Gson(); Object objects = gson.fromJson(object, Object.class); parseConfigFromObjectToString(object); return…
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