Gson handle object or array

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I came up with an answer.

private static class MyOtherClassTypeAdapter implements JsonDeserializer<List<MyOtherClass>> {
    public List<MyOtherClass> deserialize(JsonElement json, Type typeOfT, JsonDeserializationContext ctx) {
        List<MyOtherClass> vals = new ArrayList<MyOtherClass>();
        if (json.isJsonArray()) {
            for (JsonElement e : json.getAsJsonArray()) {
                vals.add((MyOtherClass) ctx.deserialize(e, MyOtherClass.class));
            }
        } else if (json.isJsonObject()) {
            vals.add((MyOtherClass) ctx.deserialize(json, MyOtherClass.class));
        } else {
            throw new RuntimeException("Unexpected JSON type: " + json.getClass());
        }
        return vals;
    }
}

Instantiate a Gson object like this

Type myOtherClassListType = new TypeToken<List<MyOtherClass>>() {}.getType();

Gson gson = new GsonBuilder()
        .registerTypeAdapter(myOtherClassListType, new MyOtherClassTypeAdapter())
        .create();

That TypeToken is a com.google.gson.reflect.TypeToken.

You can read about the solution here:

https://sites.google.com/site/gson/gson-user-guide#TOC-Serializing-and-Deserializing-Gener

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