BE THE CODER > JSON > GOOGLE GSON Examples

Google-gson is a java library from Google for encoding and decoding JSON text. Get the latest binaries from http://code.google.com/p/google-gson/. The following example shows converting a list to JSON string.

File Name :	com/bethecoder/tutorials/google_gson/tests/CollectionTest.java
Author :	Sudhakar KV
Email :	[email protected]


package com.bethecoder.tutorials.google_gson.tests;



import java.util.ArrayList;

import java.util.Date;

import java.util.List;



import com.bethecoder.tutorials.google_gson.common.Student;

import com.google.gson.Gson;

import com.google.gson.GsonBuilder;



public class CollectionTest {



  /**

   * @param args

   */

  public static void main(String[] args) {

    Gson gson = new GsonBuilder().setPrettyPrinting().create();



    List<Object> list = new ArrayList<Object>();

    list.add("ONE");

    list.add(new Integer(2));

    list.add(Boolean.TRUE);

    list.add(new Double(4.26));

    list.add(new Student("Sriram", "Kasireddi", 2, "Singing", new Date(110, 4, 6)));

    

    String jsonStr = gson.toJson(list);

    System.out.println(jsonStr);

  }



}

List to JSON