Gson Java reserved keyword

Question

I have some JSON that I am deserializing using Gson.

{ "resp": { "posts": [   {     ...     "public": true,     ...   }]  } 

My problem is that public is a Java keyword, so how would I make a field in my class that correlates with the public field in the JSON?

Answer 1

You could use a different name for your field, using gson's Field Naming Support.

public class Post {     @SerializedName("public")     private boolean isPublic;     ... } 

Answer 2

Worth a quick note that you need to include gson.annotations or SerializedName for this to compile as not part of the base gson.Gson package:

import com.google.gson.annotations.SerializedName;