How to deserialize a JSON array of objects using Gson library?

Question

I am facing an issue while I am trying to deserialize a JSON array of objects using the Gson library.

An example of the JSON array:

[
    {\"ID\":1,\         


        

Answer 1

To deserialize a JSONArray you need to use TypeToken. You can read more about it from GSON user guide. Example code:

@Test
public void JSON() {
    Gson gson = new Gson();
    Type listType = new TypeToken<List<MyObject>>(){}.getType();
    // In this test code i just shove the JSON here as string.
    List<Asd> asd = gson.fromJson("[{'name':\"test1\"}, {'name':\"test2\"}]", listType);
}

If you have a JSONArray then you can use

...
JSONArray jsonArray = ...
gson.fromJson(jsonArray.toString(), listType);
...