java - How to Parse JSON Array with Gson

Question

I want to parse JSON arrays and using gson. Firstly, I can log JSON output, server is responsing to client clearly.

Here is my JSON output:

 [
      {
           id : '1',
           title: 'sample title',
           ....
      },
      {
           id : '2',
           title: 'sample title',
           ....
     },
      ...
 ]

I tried this structure for parsing. A class, which depends on single array and ArrayList for all JSONArray.

 public class PostEntity {

      private ArrayList<Post> postList = new ArrayList<Post>();

      public List<Post> getPostList() { 
           return postList; 
      }

      public void setPostList(List<Post> postList) { 
           this.postList = (ArrayList<Post>)postList; 
      } 
 }

Post class:

 public class Post {

      private String id;
      private String title;

      /* getters & setters */
 }

When I try to use gson no error, no warning and no log:

 GsonBuilder gsonb = new GsonBuilder();
 Gson gson = gsonb.create();

 PostEntity postEnt;
 JSONObject jsonObj = new JSONObject(jsonOutput);
 postEnt = gson.fromJson(jsonObj.toString(), PostEntity.class);

 Log.d("postLog", postEnt.getPostList().get(0).getId());

What's wrong, how can I solve?

Answer 1

You can parse the JSONArray directly, don't need to wrap your Post class with PostEntity one more time and don't need new JSONObject().toString() either:

Gson gson = new Gson();
String jsonOutput = "Your JSON String";
Type listType = new TypeToken<List<Post>>(){}.getType();
List<Post> posts = gson.fromJson(jsonOutput, listType);

Hope that helps.