Java XML and JSON: Document Processing for Java SE

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9. Parsing and Creating JSON Objects with Gson

Jeff Friesen¹ 

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Dauphin, MB, Canada

 

Gson is another API for parsing and creating JSON objects. Chapter 9 explores the latest version of this open-source Google product.

What Is Gson?

Gson (also known as Google Gson) is a small Java-based library for parsing and creating JSON objects. Google developed Gson for its own projects, but later made Gson publicly available, starting with version 1.0. According to Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gson ), the latest version (at the time of writing) is 2.8.5.

Gson’s GitHub page ( http://github.com/google/gson ) identifies five important design goals for Gson:

• Provide ...