How to handle a NumberFormatException with Gson in deserialization a JSON response

Question

I\'m reading a JSON response with Gson, which returns somtimes a NumberFormatException because an expected int value is set to an empty string. Now

Answer 1

This solution works for Double types. This will only work for non-primitive types:

public class DoubleGsonTypeAdapter implements JsonDeserializer {

    @Override
    public Double deserialize(JsonElement jsonElement, Type type, JsonDeserializationContext jsonDeserializationContext) throws JsonParseException {
        Double result = null;
        try {
            result = jsonElement.getAsDouble();
        } catch (NumberFormatException e) {
            return result;
        }
        return result;
    }
}

Model:

@SerializedName("rateOfInterest")
public Double rateOfInterest;
@SerializedName("repaymentTenure")
public Double repaymentTenure;
@SerializedName("emiAmount")
public Double emiAmount;

Retrofit client:

Gson gson = new GsonBuilder().registerTypeAdapter(Double.class, new DoubleGsonTypeAdapter()) .create();

Retrofit retrofit = new Retrofit.Builder()
                .client(okHttpClient)
                .baseUrl(API_BASE_URL)
                .addConverterFactory(GsonConverterFactory.create(gson))
                .build();