Google Gson - deserialize list object? (generic type)

Question

I want to transfer a list object via Google Gson, but I don\'t know how to deserialize generic types.

What I tried after looking at this (BalusC\'s answer):

Answer 1

I want to add for one more possibility. If you don't want to use TypeToken and want to convert json objects array to an ArrayList, then you can proceed like this:

If your json structure is like:

{

"results": [
    {
        "a": 100,
        "b": "value1",
        "c": true
    },
    {
        "a": 200,
        "b": "value2",
        "c": false
    },
    {
        "a": 300,
        "b": "value3",
        "c": true
    }
]

}

and your class structure is like:

public class ClassName implements Parcelable {

    public ArrayList results = new ArrayList();
    public static class InnerClassName {
        int a;
        String b;
        boolean c;      
    }
}

then you can parse it like:

Gson gson = new Gson();
final ClassName className = gson.fromJson(data, ClassName.class);
int currentTotal = className.results.size();

Now you can access each element of className object.