Question

I’m learning spring for android with androidannotations and I’m having trouble casting JSON data received via HTTP Get to my model objects.

I have the following code:

myRestClient.getRestTemplate().getMessageConverters().add(new GsonHttpMessageConverter());
ArrayList liveMatches = myRestClient.getLiveMatchesForUser((long) user_id);

This response is actually just a JSON representation of a list of Match objects.

How can I convert this raw JSON response into an ArrayList<Match> object?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Here is what worked for me.

I created a simple class which was just a wrapper of an ArrayList data structure.

Something like:

public class MatchesListWrapper {

public ArrayList<Match> matches;

public MatchesListWrapper(ArrayList<Match> matches) {
    this.matches = matches;
}

public ArrayList<Match> getMatches() {
    return matches;
}

public void setMatches(ArrayList<Match> matches) {
    this.matches = matches;
}

}