Gson - Same field name, different types

Question

I asked this in a different question today but I\'m afraid that won\'t get any solution because of how it was phrased.

I have a json input that has the following dat

Answer 1

In my situation, the field with same name is "data":{} or "data":[array_with_real_data]. So the code from accepted answer need to be modified slightly, like this:

@Override
public MyClass deserialize(JsonElement json, Type typeOfT, JsonDeserializationContext context)
        throws JsonParseException {
    MyClass bean = new Gson().fromJson(json, MyClass.class);
    JsonObject jsonObject = json.getAsJsonObject();

    if (jsonObject.has("data")) {
        JsonArray array = jsonObject.getAsJsonArray("data");
        if (array != null && !array.isJsonNull()) {
            List<Data> data = new Gson().fromJson(array, new TypeToken<ArrayList<Data>>() {}.getType());
            bean.realData = data;
        }
    }
    return bean ;
}

hope that helps.

Answer 2

I have a solution for you :) For this purpose we should use custom deserializer. Remake your class like this:

public class Options{

    @SerializedName ("product_option_id");
    String mProductOptionId;

    @SerializedName ("option_id");
    String mOptionId;

    @SerializedName ("name");
    String mName;

    @SerializedName ("type");
    String mType;

    @SerializedName ("required");
    String mRequired;

    //don't assign any serialized name, this field will be parsed manually
    List<OptionValue> mOptionValue;

    //setter
    public void setOptionValues(List<OptionValue> optionValues){
         mOptionValue = optionValues;
    }

    // get set stuff here
    public class OptionValue
    {
        String product_option_value_id;
        String option_value_id;
        String name;
        String image;
        String price;
        String price_prefix;

        // get set stuff here
    }

public static class OptionsDeserilizer implements JsonDeserializer<Options> {

    @Override
    public Offer deserialize(JsonElement json, Type typeOfT, JsonDeserializationContext context) throws JsonParseException {
        Options options = new Gson().fromJson(json, Options.class);
        JsonObject jsonObject = json.getAsJsonObject();

        if (jsonObject.has("option_value")) {
            JsonElement elem = jsonObject.get("option_value");
            if (elem != null && !elem.isJsonNull()) {  
                 String valuesString = elem.getAsString();
                 if (!TextUtils.isEmpty(valuesString)){
                     List<OptionValue> values = new Gson().fromJson(valuesString, new TypeToken<ArrayList<OptionValue>>() {}.getType());
                     options.setOptionValues(values);
                 }
            }
        }
        return options ;
    }
}
}

Before we can let gson parse json, we should register our custom deserializer:

Gson gson = new GsonBuilder()              
            .registerTypeAdapter(Options.class, new Options.OptionsDeserilizer())               
            .create();

And now - just call:

Options options = gson.fromJson(json, Options.class);