Gson: How to change output of Enum

gson, java

Solution

You can use something like this:

GsonBuilder builder = new GsonBuilder();
builder.registerTypeAdapterFactory(new MyEnumAdapterFactory());

or more simply (as Jesse Wilson indicated):

GsonBuilder builder = new GsonBuilder();
builder.registerTypeAdapter(RequestStatus.class, new MyEnumTypeAdapter());

and

public class MyEnumAdapterFactory implements TypeAdapterFactory {

    @Override
    public <T> TypeAdapter<T> create(final Gson gson, final TypeToken<T> type) {
            Class<? super T> rawType = type.getRawType();
            if (rawType == RequestStatus.class) {
                return new MyEnumTypeAdapter<T>();
            }
            return null;
    }

    public class MyEnumTypeAdapter<T> extends TypeAdapter<T> {

         public void write(JsonWriter out, T value) throws IOException {
              if (value == null) {
                   out.nullValue();
                   return;
              }
              RequestStatus status = (RequestStatus) value;
              // Here write what you want to the JsonWriter. 
              out.beginObject();
              out.name("value");
              out.value(status.name());
              out.name("code");
              out.value(status.getCode());
              out.endObject();
         }

         public T read(JsonReader in) throws IOException {
              // Properly deserialize the input (if you use deserialization)
              return null;
         }
    }

}

Problem

I've this enum: ``` enum RequestStatus { OK(200), NOT_FOUND(400); private final int code; RequestStatus(int code) { this.code = code; } public int getCode() { return this.code; } }; ``` and in my Request-class, I have this field: `private RequestStatus status`. When using Gson to convert the Java object to JSON the result is like: ``` "status": "OK" ``` How can I change my GsonBuilder or my Enum object to give me an output like: ``` "status": { "value" : "OK", "code" : 200 } ```

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