Using Gson to parse Json array and object with no name

Question

I know there are many JSON with GSON questions but none of them relate to me directly. My JSON is formatted differently.

I have a JSON data I want to parse using GSON wh

Answer 1

According to your json, you should simply have :

public class ItemArray extends List {
}

if you want to keep you java class and change your json it should be :

{
 itemArray: [
     {
      "foo":"1",
      "bar":[ { "_id":"bar1"} ],
      "too":["mall", "park"]
     }
  ]
}

Oh, and there is a mismatch with the id and _id for Bar :

public class Bar
{
   String _id;

   //Get set here
}

You could also use an annotation to change the field's name during Json de/serialization.

And last but not least, consider typing your values better. Don't see any data as strings if they are not, you will not a lot of processing in java code to convert things. For instance :

"foo" : 1,

and see foo as an int data member, not a String.