Custom PrintFormatting for GSON

Question

I\'m having some trouble with GSON in regards to printing. GSON has two options when it comes to printing.

1. Pretty Printing
2. Compact Printing

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Answer 1

Well, it's just work in progress for now, but this should do the trick for strings with only one array. Will look into to making it more stable and able to handle more complex structures.

  private static String reformat(String og){
    String reformattable = og;
    String[] parts = reformattable.split("\\[",2);
    String arrayPart = parts[1];
    String arrayOnly = arrayPart.split("]",2)[0];
    reformattable = arrayOnly.replaceAll("\\{\n","{");
    reformattable = reformattable.replaceAll("\",\n", "\\\",");
    reformattable = reformattable.replaceAll(" +"," ");
    reformattable = reformattable.replaceAll("\\{ ","   {");
    reformattable = reformattable.replaceAll("\n }","}");

    return og.replace(arrayOnly,reformattable);
} 

Result should look like this (at least for my simple class):

{
 "classname": "test",
 "properties": [
   {"propertyname": "1", "length": 1},
   {"propertyname": "1", "length": 1}
 ]
}