Question

I have a json that looks like this

 {"abcd": {
     "id": 1234,
     "response": "authenticated",
     "key": "abrakadaba",
     "userId": 5555
 }}

and a class that looks like this:

public class Login
{
    @SerializedName("response")
    public String response;

    @SerializedName("userId")
    public int userId; 

    @SerializedName("id")
    public int employeeId;

    @SerializedName("key")
    public String key;
}

This normally works, but not with a json that has the {"abcd": {}} before all the info i need to retrieve.

how do I handle this `”abcd” tag to find and serialize all the other values.

Answer 1

You’ll need something to wrap the Login to coincide with the “abcd”. gson/jackson/whatever is going to want to parse that first. You could create a new class that contains a Login. If that wrapper class is truly going to be throw-away then you may want to just have it parse a Map<String, Login> and then do a myParsedMap.get(“abcd”) to get your Login object.