GSON Minimum Java version required

Question

What is the minimum version of Java/JDK required to use GSON API? And for gson-2.2.1.jar ?

Answer 1

Gson uses JDK 1.5 features heavily; that's the minimum version for Gson, specifically annotations and generics.

Check out this piece of GSON source code, where annotations are used

@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Target(ElementType.FIELD)
public @interface SerializedName {
    String value();
}

Answer 2

I was facing some issues related with this, the latest version of GSon at the time is 2.8.5 this doesn't work with java 1.5(Minimun 1.6).

The last version of GSon compatible with Java 1.5 is GSon 2.4