Moshi VS Gson

Honestly, when you look at a build.gradle.kts written by someone who knows what they're doing, it's not that bad (that reminds me, I should really clean up the build.gradle.kts on my personal project, I haven't heavily edited it since I knew a lot less about gradle...). For example, here's the build.gradle.kts for Moshi, a JSON serialization library from Square. It uses the root build.gradle.kts for the project a bit, which is here. The root one is a little more complex, but that's mostly because it has to deal with a multi-release build and has to configure a few plugins, like dokka. (If you're wondering where all the library versions are, they're here, using a new feature in Gradle you might like: The version catalog)

Moshi

This approach is also used by square/moshi. You can also refer this.

Best practice in Android would be Moshi, which is written by many of the same authors as Gson but is still actively maintained. It's more or less a breaking upgrade from Gson.

Thanks for the info. Just checked the GitHub and it is indeed the case that Gson is not maintained anymore. The main dev left Google it seems and therefore abandoned Gson. He and some other people however created a new project called Moshi that's probably intended as a kind of Gson 3.0: https://github.com/square/moshi the last commit was three months ago and there are a crowd of contributors listed so I guess that's the better option than ye olde Gson.

Java annotations have enabled compile-time reflection since Java 1.6, and of course it has been used for serialization: https://github.com/square/moshi/#codegen

JSON de/serialization: Kotlin serialization, Moshi

However i am getting an error "Expected BEGIN-ARRAY but was BEGIN-OBJECT at $". Looking over the moshi documentation (https://github.com/square/moshi) I think I need to use an adapter as my JSON response starts with "{ }" not the expected "[ ]". I am just struggling to understand how to implement the adapter as I think the built in adapter should work.

Moshi users are currently blocked to update until Moshi 1.13.0 is released: https://github.com/square/moshi/issues/1368

Most of the time is spent in JSON parsing, specifically in AccessLogAggregator.parseLineJson. Within parsing, the majority of time is spent in org/json/JSONObject.. Since there are faster JSON libraries available, we'll switch to Gson and repeat the tests. To do this, we'll add the following method to our code:

In this concrete example we'll create 3 products. We can then convert this JSON to the list of products using Gson.

Gson has been in maintenance mode for at least 6 years. It's kind of a shame, because the API and implementation were a lot cleaner than Jackson.

For more information on native-image build arguments, please consult the GraalVM Native Image Options documentation. The next listing contains the contents of reflect.json, which contains a bunch of data classes that we need to serialize and deserialize with Gson, as well as our Lambda handler class which the runtime needs to instantiate based on the qualified class name passed to the Lambda function.

The loadModel() method is special. It needs to dynamically update the model path specified in the JSON-formatted template file according to the extraction path of the Jar package. Gson can be used to load and update the JSON object.

If you check out the Gson user's guide, there's a section titled "JSON Field Naming Support" which explains how to do this. There are also lots of examples if you google "gson rename field".

gson

I am not sure if this is what you are looking for, but allot of projects that I worked on used gson to convert between Java objects and JSON strings (https://github.com/google/gson). Maybe you should check it out.

Since this JSON contains the JSON representation of Java objects that are unknown in PoSh/.NET, all you could do is extract the provided object data (values), but not the objects themselves. In order to extract the "real" objects as they're defined, you'd have to start from the Java side, and use a tool like Gson.