Multiple converters with Retrofit 2

Question

I have a HATEOAS (HAL) REST service and managed to talk to it with the code below (using halarious as a conversion engine) but when I try to merge the converters (stal

Answer 1

package ch.halarious.core;

import com.google.gson.JsonArray;
import com.google.gson.JsonDeserializationContext;
import com.google.gson.JsonElement;
import com.google.gson.JsonObject;
import com.google.gson.JsonParseException;
import java.lang.reflect.Type;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Set;

/**
 * Custom Hal Deserializer  
 *
 * @author jaren
 */
public class CustomHalDeserializer extends HalDeserializer {

    /**
     * Intialisiert ein HalDeserializer-Objekt
     *
     * @param targetType Typ, den wir eigentlich deserialisieren sollten
     */
    public CustomHalDeserializer(Class targetType) {
        super(targetType);
    }

    class CustomArrayList extends ArrayList implements HalResource{}

    public HalResource deserialize(JsonElement json, Type typeOfT, JsonDeserializationContext context, Class targetType) throws JsonParseException {
        // Es handelt sich um ein JSON-Objekt.
        JsonObject jsonObject = json.getAsJsonObject();
        JsonObject embeddedRoot = jsonObject.getAsJsonObject(HalConstants.EMBEDDED_ROOT);

        if(embeddedRoot != null){
            Set> set = embeddedRoot.entrySet();
            if(set.toArray().length == 1){
                JsonArray ja = embeddedRoot.getAsJsonArray(set.iterator().next().getKey());
                if(ja.isJsonArray()) {
                    CustomArrayList arrayResult = new CustomArrayList();
                    Iterator i = ja.iterator();
                    while(i.hasNext()){
                        JsonElement je = i.next();
                        arrayResult.add(super.deserialize(je, typeOfT, context, targetType));
                    }
                    return arrayResult;
                }
            }
        }

        return super.deserialize(json, typeOfT, context, targetType);
    }
}