Json to POJO mapping in Android

Question

What are good practice for handling json over a Rest Framework in Android. For instance, if I get a certain json result as follow (or any other, I\'m just giving something m

Answer 1

I like to create a response object per api endpoint where i map the response of the call.

For the given example and using GSON, the response object would be something like the following

public class Test
{
    static String jsonString = 
    "{\"lifts\":" + 
    "   [{" +
    "      \"id\":26," +
    "      \"time\":\"2012-11-21T12:00:00Z\"," +
    "      \"capacity\":4," +
    "      \"price\":10," +
    "      \"from\": { " +
    "               \"description\":null," +
    "               \"city\": {" +
    "                         \"name\":\"Montreal\"" +
    "                       }" +
    "               }," +
    "        \"to\":{" +
    "               \"description\":\"24 rue de la ville\"," +
    "               \"city\":{" +
    "                       \"name\":\"Sherbrooke\"" +
    "                      }" +
    "              }," +
    "        \"driver\":{" +
    "                  \"first_name\": \"Benjamin\"," +  
    "                  \"image\":\"https://graph.facebook.com/693607843/picture?    type=large\"" +
    "                 }" +
    "        }" +
    "     ]}";


    public static void main( String[] args )
    {
        Gson gson = new Gson();

        Response response = gson.fromJson( jsonString, Response.class );

        System.out.println( gson.toJson( response ) );
    }


    public class Response
    {
        @SerializedName("lifts")
        List<Lift> lifts;
    }

    class Lift
    {
        @SerializedName("id")
        int id;

        @SerializedName("time")
        String time;

        @SerializedName("capacity")
        int capacity;

        @SerializedName("price")
        float price;

        @SerializedName("from")
        Address from;

        @SerializedName("to")
        Address to;

        @SerializedName("driver")
        Driver driver;
    }

    class Address
    {
        @SerializedName("description")
        String description;

        @SerializedName("city")
        City city;
    }

    class City
    {
        @SerializedName("name")
        String name;
    }

    class Driver
    {
        @SerializedName("first_name")
        String firstName;

        @SerializedName("image")
        String image;
    }
}