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 liked the answer from kays1 but I couldn't implement it. So I built my own version using his concept.

public class JsonListHelper{
    public static final  List getList(String json) throws Exception {
        Gson gson = new GsonBuilder().setDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss").create();
        Type typeOfList = new TypeToken>(){}.getType();
        return gson.fromJson(json, typeOfList);
    }
}

Usage:

List MyList= JsonListHelper.getList(jsonArrayString);