How do I use Google's Gson API to deserialize JSON properly?

Question

In short, this is a sketch of the JSON object I want to parse in JAVA:

{
    object1: {
            item1: //[String | Array | Object] ,
            item2: /         


        

Answer 1

I think BalusC gave good pointers for the specific question wrt GSon (and in general, one-to-one data binding); but just in case you think there should be more dynamic handling, you could also consider other JSON processing packages. Many packages have additional or alternative ways to map things: Json-lib, flexjson and Jackson at least have additions compared to Gson. Some offer looser mapping (you define names of things to types), others actual support for polymporphic types (declaring an Object but can actually map to subtype that was serialized).