Using Retrofit to access JSON arrays

Question

I thought I understood how to do this, but obviously not. I have my API from Flickr, which begins like so:

jsonFlickrApi({
   \"photos\":{
      \"page\":1,         


        

Answer 1

You should be able to directly access the com.google.gson.JsonObject from Retrofit, and access whatever field you would like. So if you are only interested in the Photo array something like this should works:

interface ArtService {
    @GET("/services/rest/?method=flickr.photos.getRecent&extras=url_l&owner_name&format=json")
    JsonObject getPhotos();

    public class Photo {
         int id;
         String title;
         String owner;
         String url_l;
    }
}

And when you actually call the service just run the JsonObject to get what you want:

    JsonObject json = mRestClient.getArtService().getPhotos();
    List photos = new Gson().fromJson(json.getAsJsonObject("photos").get("photo").toString(), new TypeToken>() {}.getType());

Of course all the sanity check are left to you.