Gson - Same field name, different types

Question

I asked this in a different question today but I\'m afraid that won\'t get any solution because of how it was phrased.

I have a json input that has the following dat

Answer 1

In my situation, the field with same name is "data":{} or "data":[array_with_real_data]. So the code from accepted answer need to be modified slightly, like this:

@Override
public MyClass deserialize(JsonElement json, Type typeOfT, JsonDeserializationContext context)
        throws JsonParseException {
    MyClass bean = new Gson().fromJson(json, MyClass.class);
    JsonObject jsonObject = json.getAsJsonObject();

    if (jsonObject.has("data")) {
        JsonArray array = jsonObject.getAsJsonArray("data");
        if (array != null && !array.isJsonNull()) {
            List data = new Gson().fromJson(array, new TypeToken>() {}.getType());
            bean.realData = data;
        }
    }
    return bean ;
}

hope that helps.