gson invoking standard deserialization in custom deserializer

Question

You can do that by implementing custom TypeAdapterFactory for your object (say CustomClass.class) to be deserialized as below.

 public class CustomTypeAdapterFactory implements TypeAdapterFactory {

    public final TypeAdapter create(Gson gson, TypeToken type) {
     return new TypeAdapter() {
            @Override 
            public void write(JsonWriter out, Object value) throws IOException {
                JsonElement tree = delegate.toJsonTree(value);
                //add code for writing object
            }

            @Override 
            public Object read(JsonReader in) throws IOException {
                JsonElement tree = elementAdapter.read(in);
                //Add code for reading object
            }
        };
    }
  }

And then registering it with Gson as

Gson gson = new GsonBuilder().registerTypeAdapter(CustomClass.class,new CustomTypeAdapterFactory()).create();

public class FooDeserializer implements JsonDeserializer<Foo> {
public Foo deserialize(JsonElement json, Type typeOfT, JsonDeserializationContext context) throws JsonParseException {      
    Foo foo=new Gson().fromJson(json, Foo.class); // use default Gson object
    foo.doSomething();
    return foo;
}