Does anyone know if there is a Spring MVC mapping view for Gson? I\'m looking for something similar to org.springframework.web.servlet.view.json.MappingJacksonJsonView.
I would recommend to extend AbstractView just like the MappingJacksonJsonView does.
Personally, for JSON, I prefer to use @Responsebody, and just return the object rather than a model and view, this makes it easier to test. If you would like to use GSON for that, just create a custom HttpMessageConverter like this:
import com.google.gson.Gson;
import com.google.gson.GsonBuilder;
import com.google.gson.JsonParseException;
import com.google.gson.reflect.TypeToken;
import com.vitalimages.string.StringUtils;
import org.springframework.http.HttpInputMessage;
import org.springframework.http.HttpOutputMessage;
import org.springframework.http.MediaType;
import org.springframework.http.converter.AbstractHttpMessageConverter;
import org.springframework.http.converter.HttpMessageNotReadableException;
import org.springframework.http.converter.HttpMessageNotWritableException;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
import java.lang.reflect.Type;
import java.nio.charset.Charset;
import java.sql.Timestamp;
@Component
public class GSONHttpMessageConverter extends AbstractHttpMessageConverter
And then add it to your converter list in your handler adapter like this:
@Bean
public HandlerAdapter handlerAdapter() {
final AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter handlerAdapter = new AnnotationMethodHandlerAdapter();
handlerAdapter.setAlwaysUseFullPath(true);
List> converterList = new ArrayList>();
converterList.addAll(Arrays.asList(handlerAdapter.getMessageConverters()));
converterList.add(jibxHttpMessageConverter);
converterList.add(gsonHttpMessageConverter);
handlerAdapter.setMessageConverters(converterList.toArray(new HttpMessageConverter>[converterList.size()]));
return handlerAdapter;
}