Gson TypeToken with dynamic ArrayList item type

Question

I have this code:

Type typeOfObjectsList = new TypeToken>() {}.getType();
List objectsList = new Gson().fromJso         


        

Answer 1

You can actually do it. You just need to parse first your data into an JsonArray and then transform each object individually, and add it to a List :

Class dataType;

//...

JsonElement root = jsonParser.parse(json);
List data = new ArrayList<>();
JsonArray rootArray = root.getAsJsonArray();
for (JsonElement json : rootArray) {
    try {
        data.add(gson.fromJson(json, dataType));
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}
return data;