/* * Copyright (C) 2008 Google Inc. * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ package com.google.gson; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.Reader; import java.io.StringReader; import java.io.StringWriter; import java.io.Writer; import java.lang.reflect.Modifier; import java.lang.reflect.Type; import java.util.LinkedList; import java.util.List; import java.util.Map; /** * This is the main class for using Gson. Gson is typically used by first constructing a * Gson instance and then invoking {@link #toJson(Object)} or {@link #fromJson(String, Class)} * methods on it. * *

You can create a Gson instance by invoking {@code new Gson()} if the default configuration * is all you need. You can also use {@link GsonBuilder} to build a Gson instance with various * configuration options such as versioning support, pretty printing, custom * {@link JsonSerializer}s, {@link JsonDeserializer}s, and {@link InstanceCreator}s.

* *

Here is an example of how Gson is used for a simple Class: * *

 * Gson gson = new Gson(); // Or use new GsonBuilder().create();
 * MyType target = new MyType();
 * String json = gson.toJson(target); // serializes target to Json
 * MyType target2 = gson.fromJson(json, MyType.class); // deserializes json into target2
 * 

* *

If the object that your are serializing/deserializing is a {@code ParameterizedType} * (i.e. contains at least one type parameter and may be an array) then you must use the * {@link #toJson(Object, Type)} or {@link #fromJson(String, Type)} method. Here is an * example for serializing and deserialing a {@code ParameterizedType}: * *

 * Type listType = new TypeToken>() {}.getType();
 * List target = new LinkedList();
 * target.add("blah");
 *
 * Gson gson = new Gson();
 * String json = gson.toJson(target, listType);
 * List target2 = gson.fromJson(json, listType);
 * 

* *

See the Gson User Guide * for a more complete set of examples.

* * @see com.google.gson.reflect.TypeToken * * @author Inderjeet Singh * @author Joel Leitch */ public final class Gson { //TODO(inder): get rid of all the registerXXX methods and take all such parameters in the // constructor instead. At the minimum, mark those methods private. private static final String NULL_STRING = "null"; static final boolean DEFAULT_JSON_NON_EXECUTABLE = false; // Default instances of plug-ins static final ModifierBasedExclusionStrategy DEFAULT_MODIFIER_BASED_EXCLUSION_STRATEGY = new ModifierBasedExclusionStrategy(true, new int[] { Modifier.TRANSIENT, Modifier.STATIC }); static final JsonFormatter DEFAULT_JSON_FORMATTER = new JsonCompactFormatter(); static final FieldNamingStrategy DEFAULT_NAMING_POLICY = new SerializedNameAnnotationInterceptingNamingPolicy(new JavaFieldNamingPolicy()); private static final String JSON_NON_EXECUTABLE_PREFIX = ")]}'\n"; private final ExclusionStrategy strategy; private final FieldNamingStrategy fieldNamingPolicy; private final MappedObjectConstructor objectConstructor; /** Map containing Type or Class objects as keys */ private final ParameterizedTypeHandlerMap> serializers; /** Map containing Type or Class objects as keys */ private final ParameterizedTypeHandlerMap> deserializers; private final JsonFormatter formatter; private final boolean serializeNulls; private final boolean generateNonExecutableJson; /** * Constructs a Gson object with default configuration. The default configuration has the * following settings: * */ public Gson() { this(createExclusionStrategy(VersionConstants.IGNORE_VERSIONS), DEFAULT_NAMING_POLICY); } /** * Constructs a Gson object with the specified version and the mode of operation while * encountering inner class references. */ Gson(ExclusionStrategy strategy, FieldNamingStrategy fieldNamingPolicy) { this(strategy, fieldNamingPolicy, new MappedObjectConstructor(DefaultTypeAdapters.getDefaultInstanceCreators()), DEFAULT_JSON_FORMATTER, false, DefaultTypeAdapters.getDefaultSerializers(), DefaultTypeAdapters.getDefaultDeserializers(), DEFAULT_JSON_NON_EXECUTABLE); } Gson(ExclusionStrategy strategy, FieldNamingStrategy fieldNamingPolicy, MappedObjectConstructor objectConstructor, JsonFormatter formatter, boolean serializeNulls, ParameterizedTypeHandlerMap> serializers, ParameterizedTypeHandlerMap> deserializers, boolean generateNonExecutableGson) { this.strategy = strategy; this.fieldNamingPolicy = fieldNamingPolicy; this.objectConstructor = objectConstructor; this.formatter = formatter; this.serializeNulls = serializeNulls; this.serializers = serializers; this.deserializers = deserializers; this.generateNonExecutableJson = generateNonExecutableGson; } private ObjectNavigatorFactory createDefaultObjectNavigatorFactory() { return new ObjectNavigatorFactory(strategy, fieldNamingPolicy); } private static ExclusionStrategy createExclusionStrategy(double version) { List strategies = new LinkedList(); strategies.add(new AnonymousAndLocalClassExclusionStrategy()); strategies.add(DEFAULT_MODIFIER_BASED_EXCLUSION_STRATEGY); if (version != VersionConstants.IGNORE_VERSIONS) { strategies.add(new VersionExclusionStrategy(version)); } return new DisjunctionExclusionStrategy(strategies); } /** * This method serializes the specified object into its equivalent Json representation. * This method should be used when the specified object is not a generic type. This method uses * {@link Class#getClass()} to get the type for the specified object, but the * {@code getClass()} loses the generic type information because of the Type Erasure feature * of Java. Note that this method works fine if the any of the object fields are of generic type, * just the object itself should not be of a generic type. If the object is of generic type, use * {@link #toJson(Object, Type)} instead. If you want to write out the object to a * {@link Writer}, use {@link #toJson(Object, Appendable)} instead. * * @param src the object for which Json representation is to be created setting for Gson * @return Json representation of {@code src}. */ public String toJson(Object src) { if (src == null) { return serializeNulls ? NULL_STRING : ""; } return toJson(src, src.getClass()); } /** * This method serializes the specified object, including those of generic types, into its * equivalent Json representation. This method must be used if the specified object is a generic * type. For non-generic objects, use {@link #toJson(Object)} instead. If you want to write out * the object to a {@link Appendable}, use {@link #toJson(Object, Type, Appendable)} instead. * * @param src the object for which JSON representation is to be created * @param typeOfSrc The specific genericized type of src. You can obtain * this type by using the {@link com.google.gson.reflect.TypeToken} class. For example, * to get the type for {@code Collection}, you should use: *
   * Type typeOfSrc = new TypeToken<Collection<Foo>>(){}.getType();
   * 
* @return Json representation of {@code src} */ public String toJson(Object src, Type typeOfSrc) { StringWriter writer = new StringWriter(); toJson(src, typeOfSrc, writer); return writer.toString(); } /** * This method serializes the specified object into its equivalent Json representation. * This method should be used when the specified object is not a generic type. This method uses * {@link Class#getClass()} to get the type for the specified object, but the * {@code getClass()} loses the generic type information because of the Type Erasure feature * of Java. Note that this method works fine if the any of the object fields are of generic type, * just the object itself should not be of a generic type. If the object is of generic type, use * {@link #toJson(Object, Type, Appendable)} instead. * * @param src the object for which Json representation is to be created setting for Gson * @param writer Writer to which the Json representation needs to be written * @since 1.2 */ public void toJson(Object src, Appendable writer) { try { if (src != null) { toJson(src, src.getClass(), writer); } else if (serializeNulls) { writeOutNullString(writer); } } catch (IOException ioe) { throw new RuntimeException(ioe); } } /** * This method serializes the specified object, including those of generic types, into its * equivalent Json representation. This method must be used if the specified object is a generic * type. For non-generic objects, use {@link #toJson(Object, Appendable)} instead. * * @param src the object for which JSON representation is to be created * @param typeOfSrc The specific genericized type of src. You can obtain * this type by using the {@link com.google.gson.reflect.TypeToken} class. For example, * to get the type for {@code Collection}, you should use: *
   * Type typeOfSrc = new TypeToken<Collection<Foo>>(){}.getType();
   * 
* @param writer Writer to which the Json representation of src needs to be written. * @since 1.2 */ public void toJson(Object src, Type typeOfSrc, Appendable writer) { try { if (src != null) { JsonSerializationContext context = new JsonSerializationContextDefault( createDefaultObjectNavigatorFactory(), serializeNulls, serializers); JsonElement jsonElement = context.serialize(src, typeOfSrc); if (generateNonExecutableJson) { writer.append(JSON_NON_EXECUTABLE_PREFIX); } //TODO(Joel): instead of navigating the "JsonElement" inside the formatter, do it here. formatter.format(jsonElement, writer, serializeNulls); } else { if (serializeNulls) { writeOutNullString(writer); } } } catch (IOException ioe) { throw new RuntimeException(ioe); } } /** * This method deserializes the specified Json into an object of the specified class. It is not * suitable to use if the specified class is a generic type since it will not have the generic * type information because of the Type Erasure feature of Java. Therefore, this method should not * be used if the desired type is a generic type. Note that this method works fine if the any of * the fields of the specified object are generics, just the object itself should not be a * generic type. For the cases when the object is of generic type, invoke * {@link #fromJson(String, Type)}. If you have the Json in a {@link Reader} instead of * a String, use {@link #fromJson(Reader, Class)} instead. * * @param the type of the desired object * @param json the string from which the object is to be deserialized * @param classOfT the class of T * @return an object of type T from the string * @throws JsonParseException if json is not a valid representation for an object of type * classOfT */ @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") public T fromJson(String json, Class classOfT) throws JsonParseException { T target = (T) fromJson(json, (Type) classOfT); return target; } /** * This method deserializes the specified Json into an object of the specified type. This method * is useful if the specified object is a generic type. For non-generic objects, use * {@link #fromJson(String, Class)} instead. If you have the Json in a {@link Reader} instead of * a String, use {@link #fromJson(Reader, Type)} instead. * * @param the type of the desired object * @param json the string from which the object is to be deserialized * @param typeOfT The specific genericized type of src. You can obtain this type by using the * {@link com.google.gson.reflect.TypeToken} class. For example, to get the type for * {@code Collection}, you should use: *
   * Type typeOfT = new TypeToken<Collection<Foo>>(){}.getType();
   * 
* @return an object of type T from the string * @throws JsonParseException if json is not a valid representation for an object of type typeOfT */ @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") public T fromJson(String json, Type typeOfT) throws JsonParseException { StringReader reader = new StringReader(json); T target = (T) fromJson(reader, typeOfT); return target; } /** * This method deserializes the Json read from the specified reader into an object of the * specified class. It is not suitable to use if the specified class is a generic type since it * will not have the generic type information because of the Type Erasure feature of Java. * Therefore, this method should not be used if the desired type is a generic type. Note that * this method works fine if the any of the fields of the specified object are generics, just the * object itself should not be a generic type. For the cases when the object is of generic type, * invoke {@link #fromJson(Reader, Type)}. If you have the Json in a String form instead of a * {@link Reader}, use {@link #fromJson(String, Class)} instead. * * @param the type of the desired object * @param json the reader producing the Json from which the object is to be deserialized. * @param classOfT the class of T * @return an object of type T from the string * @throws JsonParseException if json is not a valid representation for an object of type * classOfT * @since 1.2 */ public T fromJson(Reader json, Class classOfT) throws JsonParseException { T target = classOfT.cast(fromJson(json, (Type) classOfT)); return target; } /** * This method deserializes the Json read from the specified reader into an object of the * specified type. This method is useful if the specified object is a generic type. For * non-generic objects, use {@link #fromJson(Reader, Class)} instead. If you have the Json in a * String form instead of a {@link Reader}, use {@link #fromJson(String, Type)} instead. * * @param the type of the desired object * @param json the reader producing Json from which the object is to be deserialized * @param typeOfT The specific genericized type of src. You can obtain this type by using the * {@link com.google.gson.reflect.TypeToken} class. For example, to get the type for * {@code Collection}, you should use: *
   * Type typeOfT = new TypeToken<Collection<Foo>>(){}.getType();
   * 
* @return an object of type T from the json * @throws JsonParseException if json is not a valid representation for an object of type typeOfT * @since 1.2 */ @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") public T fromJson(Reader json, Type typeOfT) throws JsonParseException { JsonElement root = new JsonParser().parse(json); JsonDeserializationContext context = new JsonDeserializationContextDefault( createDefaultObjectNavigatorFactory(), deserializers, objectConstructor); T target = (T) context.deserialize(root, typeOfT); return target; } /** * This method deserializes the Json read from the specified parse tree into an object of the * specified type. It is not suitable to use if the specified class is a generic type since it * will not have the generic type information because of the Type Erasure feature of Java. * Therefore, this method should not be used if the desired type is a generic type. Note that * this method works fine if the any of the fields of the specified object are generics, just the * object itself should not be a generic type. For the cases when the object is of generic type, * invoke {@link #fromJson(JsonElement, Type)}. * @param the type of the desired object * @param json the root of the parse tree of {@link JsonElement}s from which the object is to * be deserialized * @param classOfT The class of T * @return an object of type T from the json * @throws JsonParseException if json is not a valid representation for an object of type typeOfT * @since 1.3 */ public T fromJson(JsonElement json, Class classOfT) throws JsonParseException { T target = classOfT.cast(fromJson(json, (Type) classOfT)); return target; } /** * This method deserializes the Json read from the specified parse tree into an object of the * specified type. This method is useful if the specified object is a generic type. For * non-generic objects, use {@link #fromJson(JsonElement, Class)} instead. * * @param the type of the desired object * @param json the root of the parse tree of {@link JsonElement}s from which the object is to * be deserialized * @param typeOfT The specific genericized type of src. You can obtain this type by using the * {@link com.google.gson.reflect.TypeToken} class. For example, to get the type for * {@code Collection}, you should use: *
   * Type typeOfT = new TypeToken<Collection<Foo>>(){}.getType();
   * 
* @return an object of type T from the json * @throws JsonParseException if json is not a valid representation for an object of type typeOfT * @since 1.3 */ @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") public T fromJson(JsonElement json, Type typeOfT) throws JsonParseException { JsonDeserializationContext context = new JsonDeserializationContextDefault( createDefaultObjectNavigatorFactory(), deserializers, objectConstructor); T target = (T) context.deserialize(json, typeOfT); return target; } /** * Appends the {@link #NULL_STRING} to the {@code writer} object. * * @param writer the object to append the null value to */ private void writeOutNullString(Appendable writer) throws IOException { writer.append(NULL_STRING); } @Override public String toString() { StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder("{") .append("serializeNulls:").append(serializeNulls) .append(",serializers:").append(serializers) .append(",deserializers:").append(deserializers) // using the name instanceCreator instead of ObjectConstructor since the users of Gson are // more familiar with the concept of Instance Creators. Moreover, the objectConstructor is // just a utility class around instance creators, and its toString() only displays them. .append(",instanceCreators:").append(objectConstructor) .append("}"); return sb.toString(); } }