WorkManager Data.Builder does not support Parcelable

Question

When you have a big POJO with loads of variables (Booleans, Int, Strings) and you want to use the new Work Manager to start a job. You then create a Data file which gets added t

Answer 1

In Kotlin, thats how I do it

Object to Json

inline fun Any.convertToJsonString():String{
 return Gson().toJson(this)?:""
}

To Convert back to model,

inline fun  JSONObject.toModel(): T? = this.run {
  try {
    Gson().fromJson(this.toString(), T::class.java)
  }
    catch (e:java.lang.Exception){ e.printStackTrace()
    Log.e("JSONObject to model",  e.message.toString() )

    null }
}


inline fun  String.toModel(): T? = this.run {
  try {
    JSONObject(this).toModel()
   }
   catch (e:java.lang.Exception){
    Log.e("String to model",  e.message.toString() )

    null
 }
}