在没有包装器的情况下解析 JSON 数组 class

Parsing a JSON array WITHOUT a wrapper class

我正在尝试使用 Gson 将 JSON 数组解析为 Java ArrayList。

{
  "fathers": [
    {
      "name": "Donald",
      "age": 47,
      "children": [
        {
          "name": "Johnny",
          "age": 6
        },
        {
          "name": "Donna",
          "age": 15
        },
        {
          "name": "Alan",
          "age": 21
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "George",
      "age": 35,
      "children": [
        {
          "name": "Cynthia",
          "age": 10
        },
        {
          "name": "Stacey",
          "age": 5
        },
        {
          "name": "Dewey",
          "age": 2
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

我正在尝试将 "fathers" 数组解析为 ArrayList...但是,我不能直接这样做,因为 fathers 数组被 JSON 对象包裹。通常,我会做这样的事情:

Type fathersListType = new TypeToken<ArrayList<Father>>(){}.getType();
fathersArrayList = gson.fromJson(fathersJson, fathersListType);

但是,由于父亲数组被一个对象包裹,我得到这个错误:

Expected BEGIN_ARRAY but was BEGIN_OBJECT at line 1 column 2 path $

有没有一种方法可以解析所述数组,而不必声明包含 "fathers" 数组的包装器 class?比如忽略包装对象,或从中提取 JSON 数组。

像这样的东西应该可以工作:

String data = "{...}"; // Your JSON
JsonArray array = new JsonParser().parse(data).getAsJsonObject().get("fathers").getAsJsonArray();
List<Father> fathers = Arrays.asList(new Gson().fromJson(array, Father[].class));

Arrays.asList 来自 https://commons.apache.org/

您可以将根对象解析为 Map:

Type rootType = new TypeToken<Map<String, List<Person>>>(){}.getType();
Map<String, List<Person>> root = gson.fromJson(fathersJson, rootType);
List<Person> fathersList = root.get("fathers");