The most notable impact of this change is that it adds several new public APIs:
- The TypeAdapter abstract class
- The TypeAdapter.Factory interface
- Four new methods on GsonBuilder to register streaming TypeAdapters (via Factory, via Class, via TypeToken, and as a type hierarchy)
- Three new methods on Gson to lookup streaming TypeAdapters (by type, by class, and to get the next type adapter)
Still outstanding:
- Write beautiful prose to document the new APIs above
- Change GsonBuilder's precedence so that both old and new-style type adapters are registered in one lot