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Asked: 2026-05-26T10:23:51+00:00

I’m consuming a web service in my application that will return a list of

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I’m consuming a web service in my application that will return a list of ID’s associated with a name. An example would look like this:

{
  "6502": "News",
  "6503": "Sports",
  "6505": "Opinion",
  "6501": "Arts",
  "6506": "The Statement"
}

How would I construct a POJO for Gson to deserialize to when all of the fields are dynamic?

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  1. Editorial Team

    How about deserializing into a map?

    Gson gson = new Gson();
Type mapType = new TypeToken<Map<String, String>>() {}.getType();
String json = "{'6502':'News','6503':'Sports','6505':'Opinion','6501':'Arts','6506':'The Statement'}";
Map<String, String> map = gson.fromJson(json, mapType);

    Using a map sounds reasonable for me (as Java is statically typed). Even if this could work (maybe using JavaCompiler) – accessing the object would not probably be much different from accessing a map.

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