Although there are several threads on this topic.. please do not mark this as duplicate.
My pojo looks like this :
public class sample {
public sample() {
// TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
}
private String instructions;
private String resource;
private List<Map<String,String>> fields;
private String taskid;
private List<Map<String,String>> answer;
public String getTaskid() {
return taskid;
}
public void setTaskid(String taskid) {
this.taskid = taskid;
}
public String getInstructions() {
return instructions;
}
public void setInstructions(String instructions) {
this.instructions = instructions;
}
public String getResource() {
return resource;
}
public void setResource(String resource) {
this.resource = resource;
}
public List<Map<String,String>> getFields() {
return fields;
}
public void setFields(List<Map<String,String>> fields) {
this.fields = fields;
}
public List<Map<String,String>> getAnswer() {
return answer;
}
public void setAnswer(List<Map<String,String>> answer) {
this.answer = answer;
}
}
I am doing a httpget and the result is an array of Json objects I try to typecast it to sample but it gives an exception.
the deserialization snippet is as follows
sample[] temp = gsonObj.fromJson(response, sample[].class);
the exception i get is
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to invoke no-args constructor for class [sample;. Register an InstanceCreator with Gson for this type may fix this problem.
at com.google.gson.MappedObjectConstructor.constructWithAllocators(MappedObjectConstructor.java:68)
at com.google.gson.MappedObjectConstructor.construct(MappedObjectConstructor.java:52)
at com.google.gson.JsonObjectDeserializationVisitor.constructTarget(JsonObjectDeserializationVisitor.java:42)
at com.google.gson.JsonDeserializationVisitor.getTarget(JsonDeserializationVisitor.java:60)
at com.google.gson.ObjectNavigator.accept(ObjectNavigator.java:104)
at com.google.gson.JsonDeserializationContextDefault.fromJsonObject(JsonDeserializationContextDefault.java:76)
at com.google.gson.JsonDeserializationContextDefault.deserialize(JsonDeserializationContextDefault.java:54)
at com.google.gson.Gson.fromJson(Gson.java:551)
at com.google.gson.Gson.fromJson(Gson.java:498)
at com.google.gson.Gson.fromJson(Gson.java:467)
at com.google.gson.Gson.fromJson(Gson.java:417)
at com.google.gson.Gson.fromJson(Gson.java:389)
at HTTPClientUtils.getResultsFromMobileWorks(HTTPClientUtils.java:327)
Can you please let me know where i am making the mistake ??
Sample
a nested class? Didn't the constructor throw an exception? – maaartinus Oct 17 '12 at 5:41