Serialization with Gson

Serialization with Gson is easy and will output correct JSON.

public class Employe {

    private String firstName;
    private String lastName;
    private int age;      
    private BigDecimal salary;
    private List<String> skills;

    //getters and setters
}

(Serialization)

//Skills 
List<String> skills = new LinkedList<String>();
skills.add("leadership");
skills.add("Java Experience");

//Employe
Employe obj = new Employe();
obj.setFirstName("Christian");
obj.setLastName("Lusardi");
obj.setAge(25);
obj.setSalary(new BigDecimal("10000"));
obj.setSkills(skills);

//Serialization process
Gson gson = new Gson();
String json = gson.toJson(obj); //{"firstName":"Christian","lastName":"Lusardi","age":25,"salary":10000,"skills":["leadership","Java Experience"]}

Note that you can not serialize objects with circular references since that will result in infinite recursion.

(Deserialization)

//it's very simple...
//Assuming that json is the previous String object....

Employe obj2 = gson.fromJson(json, Employe.class); // obj2 is just like obj

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