Gson: How to change output of Enum

Question

I\'ve this enum:

enum RequestStatus {
  OK(200), NOT_FOUND(400);

  private final int code;

  RequestStatus(int code) {
    this.code = code;
  }

         


        

Answer 1

You can use something like this:

GsonBuilder builder = new GsonBuilder();
builder.registerTypeAdapterFactory(new MyEnumAdapterFactory());

or more simply (as Jesse Wilson indicated):

GsonBuilder builder = new GsonBuilder();
builder.registerTypeAdapter(RequestStatus.class, new MyEnumTypeAdapter());

and

public class MyEnumAdapterFactory implements TypeAdapterFactory {

    @Override
    public  TypeAdapter create(final Gson gson, final TypeToken type) {
            Class rawType = type.getRawType();
            if (rawType == RequestStatus.class) {
                return new MyEnumTypeAdapter();
            }
            return null;
    }

    public class MyEnumTypeAdapter extends TypeAdapter {

         public void write(JsonWriter out, T value) throws IOException {
              if (value == null) {
                   out.nullValue();
                   return;
              }
              RequestStatus status = (RequestStatus) value;
              // Here write what you want to the JsonWriter. 
              out.beginObject();
              out.name("value");
              out.value(status.name());
              out.name("code");
              out.value(status.getCode());
              out.endObject();
         }

         public T read(JsonReader in) throws IOException {
              // Properly deserialize the input (if you use deserialization)
              return null;
         }
    }

}