Gson, how to deserialize array or empty string

Question

I trying to deserialize this json to array of objects:

[{
    \"name\": \"item 1\",
    \"tags\": [\"tag1\"]
},
{
    \"name\": \"item 2\",
    \"tags\": [\"         


        

Answer 1

Use Jacskon Object Mapper

See below simple example

[http://www.mkyong.com/java/how-to-convert-java-object-to-from-json-jackson/][1]