Android Tutorial => Parsing json array to generic class using Gson

Example

Suppose we have a json ：

{
  "total_count": 132,
  "page_size": 2,
  "page_index": 1,
  "twitter_posts": [
    {
      "created_on": 1465935152,
      "tweet_id": 210462857140252672,
      "tweet": "Along with our new #Twitterbird, we've also updated our Display Guidelines",
      "url": "https://twitter.com/twitterapi/status/210462857140252672"
    },
    {
      "created_on": 1465995741,
      "tweet_id": 735128881808691200,
      "tweet": "Information on the upcoming changes to Tweets is now on the developer site",
      "url": "https://twitter.com/twitterapi/status/735128881808691200"
    }
  ]
}

We can parse this array into a Custom Tweets (tweets list container) object manually, but it is easier to do it with fromJson method:

Gson gson = new Gson();
String jsonArray = "....";
Tweets tweets = gson.fromJson(jsonArray, Tweets.class);

Suppose we have two classes below:

class Tweets {
    @SerializedName("total_count")
    int totalCount;
    @SerializedName("page_size")
    int pageSize;
    @SerializedName("page_index")
    int pageIndex;
    // all you need to do it is just define List variable with correct name 
    @SerializedName("twitter_posts")
    List<Tweet> tweets;
}

class Tweet {
    @SerializedName("created_on")
    long createdOn;
    @SerializedName("tweet_id")
    String tweetId;
    @SerializedName("tweet")
    String tweetBody;
    @SerializedName("url")
    String url;
}

and if you need just parse a json array you can use this code in your parsing:

String tweetsJsonArray = "[{.....},{.....}]"
List<Tweet> tweets = gson.fromJson(tweetsJsonArray, new TypeToken<List<Tweet>>() {}.getType());

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