Kotlin Programming Cookbook

How to do it…

Now, let's follow these steps to parse JSON data using Gson. For example, we will use a raw string here to keep things simple:

1. First, we will create dummy JSON data using a raw string, as follows:

val jsonStr="""    {     "name": "Aanand Shekhar",     "age": 21,     "isAwesome": true    }""".trimIndent()

2. Next, we will create a data class to hold this data. Here's how our data class looks:

data class Information(val name:String,val age:Int, val isAwesome:Boolean)

3. Finally, we will use Gson to parse the JSON string:

val information:Information= Gson().fromJson<Information>(jsonStr,Information::class.java)

Now you can use it just like a Kotlin object.