Parse a nested JSON using gson

Question

{
    \"Response\": {
        \"MetaInfo\": {
            \"Timestamp\": \"2011-11-21T14:55:06.556Z\"
        },
        \"View\": [
            {
                \"         


        

Answer 1

If you only need the "PostalCode", you could use JsonParser instead of having a bunch of classes:

JsonParser jsonParser = new JsonParser();
JsonObject address = jsonParser.parse(json)
    .getAsJsonObject().get("Response")
    .getAsJsonObject().getAsJsonArray("View").get(0)
    .getAsJsonObject().getAsJsonArray("Result").get(0)
    .getAsJsonObject().get("Location")
    .getAsJsonObject().getAsJsonObject("Address");
String postalCode = address.get("PostalCode").getAsString();

or for all results:

JsonArray results = jsonParser.parse(json)
        .getAsJsonObject().get("Response")
        .getAsJsonObject().getAsJsonArray("View").get(0)
        .getAsJsonObject().getAsJsonArray("Result");
for (JsonElement result : results) {
    JsonObject address = result.getAsJsonObject().get("Location").getAsJsonObject().getAsJsonObject("Address");
    String postalCode = address.get("PostalCode").getAsString();
    System.out.println(postalCode);
}

Answer 2

To make your Timestamp example work, try:

public class ParseJSON {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("try.json"));

        Gson gson = new GsonBuilder().create();
        Pojo pojo = gson.fromJson(br, Pojo.class);

        System.out.println(pojo.Response.MetaInfo.Timestamp);
        br.close();
    }
}

class Pojo {
    Response Response = new Response();
}

class Response {
    MetaInfo MetaInfo = new MetaInfo();
}

class MetaInfo {
    String Timestamp;
}