retrofit 2 - how to pass a POST json object

android, gson

Solution

I saw this question that I made 1 year ago and I`m using another solution nowdays. If someone still needs a help and looking for this, here we go:

I have made a function to handle the JSON format that I want:

 public String serialize(List<Object> objects, String arrKey, String 
     objKey) {
    JsonArray ja = new JsonArray();
    for (Object object: objects) {
        Gson gson = new Gson();
        JsonElement je = gson.toJsonTree(object);
        JsonObject jo = new JsonObject();
        jo.add(objKey, je);
        ja.add(jo);
    }

    JsonObject objMain = new JsonObject();
    objMain.add(arrKey,ja);

    return objMain.toString();

}

And in my API Call I have this line:

     String json = new CustomGsonAdapter().serialize(surveysList, "surveys","survey");
    RequestBody body = RequestBody.create(MediaType.parse("application/json; charset=utf-8"), json);

`RequestBody` is the trick. Now, just need to pass this `RequestBody` to retrofit call and thats it.

@POST("surveys")
Call<Void> setSurveys(@Body RequestBody json);

I dont know if this is the best way to archieve the problem, but for me it was. Save time and avoid to create a class just to send to server.

Problem

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