I did this research the last week and I ended up with the same 2 libraries. As I’m using Spring 3 (that adopts Jackson in its default Json view ‘JacksonJsonView’) it was more natural for me to do the same. The 2 lib are pretty much the same… at the end they simply map to … Read more
Any fields you don’t want serialized in general you should use the “transient” modifier, and this also applies to json serializers (at least it does to a few that I have used, including gson). If you don’t want name to show up in the serialized json give it a transient keyword, eg: private transient String … Read more
Method to deserialize generic collection: import java.lang.reflect.Type; import com.google.gson.reflect.TypeToken; … Type listType = new TypeToken<ArrayList<YourClass>>(){}.getType(); List<YourClass> yourClassList = new Gson().fromJson(jsonArray, listType); Since several people in the comments have mentioned it, here’s an explanation of how the TypeToken class is being used. The construction new TypeToken<…>() {}.getType() captures a compile-time type (between the < and >) … Read more
Let’s evaluate the parsing of each: http://jsfiddle.net/brandonscript/Y2dGv/ var json1 = ‘{}’; var json2 = ‘{“myCount”: null}’; var json3 = ‘{“myCount”: 0}’; var json4 = ‘{“myString”: “”}’; var json5 = ‘{“myString”: “null”}’; var json6 = ‘{“myArray”: []}’; console.log(JSON.parse(json1)); // {} console.log(JSON.parse(json2)); // {myCount: null} console.log(JSON.parse(json3)); // {myCount: 0} console.log(JSON.parse(json4)); // {myString: “”} console.log(JSON.parse(json5)); // {myString: “null”} … Read more