Out with (JSON Serializer) and In With GSON

So as many of you know, we worth a lot with Spring MVC (2.5 and up) and utilize the RESTful-ness of Spring quite often.  Many times we have also needed to simply respond with JSON for AJAX calls and remote calls.  For this, FlexJson works pretty well.  I haven’t had much to complain about until I ran into a limitation this week.

Apparently FlexJson doesn’t really handle next objects or List<>’s very well.  Matter of fact I found it almost impossible to get the result I was looking for even after using their “include()” method to added in different object properties.

After toying around in a couple forums I finally stumbled upon someone mentioning Gson.  Gson is now my favorite thing for this week !!!

Implementing GSON was simple.

// Initialize Gson
Gson serializer = new Gson();
// Serialize almost any object.. POOF, done!
String jsonString = serializer.toJson(object);

Simple huh?  Have fun with Gson, and comment any tips or tricks you have for Json API’s!

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