Gson turn an array of data objects into json - Android

Question

Currently I am working on a native android app with webView front end.

I have something like:

public class dataObject
{
  int a;
  String b;
}
         


        

Answer 1

Here's a comprehensive example on how to use Gson with a list of objects. This should demonstrate exactly how to convert to/from Json, how to reference lists, etc.

Test.java:

import com.google.gson.Gson;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import com.google.gson.reflect.TypeToken;
import java.lang.reflect.Type;


public class Test {

  public static void main (String[] args) {

    // Initialize a list of type DataObject
    List objList = new ArrayList();
    objList.add(new DataObject(0, "zero"));
    objList.add(new DataObject(1, "one"));
    objList.add(new DataObject(2, "two"));

    // Convert the object to a JSON string
    String json = new Gson().toJson(objList);
    System.out.println(json);

    // Now convert the JSON string back to your java object
    Type type = new TypeToken>(){}.getType();
    List inpList = new Gson().fromJson(json, type);
    for (int i=0;i

And finally to run it:

java -cp "gson-2.1.jar:." Test

Note that if you're using Windows, you'll have to switch : with ; in the previous two commands.

After you run it, you should see the following output:

[{"a":0,"b":"zero"},{"a":1,"b":"one"},{"a":2,"b":"two"}]
a = 0, b = zero
a = 1, b = one
a = 2, b = two

Keep in mind that this is only a command line program to demonstrate how it works, but the same principles apply within the Android environment (referencing jar libs, etc.)