An extension for Google's AutoValue that creates a simple Gson TypeAdapterFactory for each AutoValue annotated object.
Simply include auto-value-gson in your project and add a public static method to your @AutoValue
annotated class returning a TypeAdapter. You can also annotate your properties using
@SerializedName to define an alternate name for de/serialization.
@AutoValue public abstract class Foo {
abstract String bar();
@SerializedName("Baz") abstract String baz();
abstract int quux();
abstract String with_underscores();
// The public static method returning a TypeAdapter<Foo> is what
// tells auto-value-gson to create a TypeAdapter for Foo.
public static TypeAdapter<Foo> typeAdapter(Gson gson) {
return new AutoValue_Foo.GsonTypeAdapter(gson);
}
}Now build your project and de/serialize your Foo.
To trigger TypeAdapter generation, you need include a non-private static factory method that accepts
a Gson parameter and returns a TypeAdapter for your AutoValue type. From within this method you
can instantiate a new GsonTypeAdapter which will have been generated as an inner class of your
AutoValue generated implementation.
@AutoValue public abstract class Foo {
// properties...
public static TypeAdapter<Foo> typeAdapter(Gson gson) {
return new AutoValue_Foo.GsonTypeAdapter(gson);
}
}If your annotated class uses generics, you'll have to modify your static method a little so
AutoValue will know how to generate an appropriate adapter. Simply add a TypeToken<?> parameter
and pass it to the generated GsonTypeAdapter class.
To have support for fields with generic parameters (eg. List<B>) you need to upgrade your Gson
dependency to at least 2.8.0, which introduces the helper TypeToken.getParameterized()
see Gson Changelog.
@AutoValue public abstract class Foo<A, B, C> {
abstract A data();
abstract List<B> dataList();
abstract Map<String, List<C>> dataMap();
public static <A, B, C> TypeAdapter<Foo<A, B, C>> typeAdapter(Gson gson,
Type[] types) {
return new AutoValue_Foo.GsonTypeAdapter<>(gson, types);
}
}Note that the types is an array of the Type representations of the given type's generics. If
Foo is parameterized as Foo<String, Integer, Boolean>, then the Type array passed in should be
an array of {String.class, Integer.class, Boolean.class}.
To ignore certain properties from serialization, you can use the @AutoTransient annotation. This comes from a
shared transience annotations library and is an api dependency of the runtime artifact. You can annotate
a property and it will be treated as transient for both serialization and deserialization. Note that
this should only be applied to nullable properties.
Optionally, auto-value-gson can create a single TypeAdapterFactory so that you don't have to add each generated TypeAdapter to your Gson instance manually.
To generate a TypeAdapterFactory for all of your auto-value-gson classes, simply create
an abstract class that implements TypeAdapterFactory and annotate it with @GsonTypeAdapterFactory,
and auto-value-gson will create an implementation for you. You simply need to provide a static
factory method, just like your AutoValue classes, and you can use the generated TypeAdapterFactory
to help Gson de/serialize your types.
@GsonTypeAdapterFactory
public abstract class MyAdapterFactory implements TypeAdapterFactory {
// Static factory method to access the package
// private generated implementation
public static TypeAdapterFactory create() {
return new AutoValueGson_MyAdapterFactory();
}
}Then you simply need to register the Factory with Gson.
Gson gson = new GsonBuilder()
.registerTypeAdapterFactory(MyAdapterFactory.create())
.create();There is an annotation in the auto-value-gson-runtime artifact called @GenerateTypeAdapter. This annotation
can be set on types to indicate to the extension that you want the generated adapter to be a top level class in the same
package. The name of this class will be the AutoValue class's name plus _GsonTypeAdapter suffix.
Types annotated with this can also be (de)serialized dynamically at runtime with a provided runtime TypeAdapterFactory
implementation in the annotation called FACTORY. The type name and generated typeadapter class's name must not be obfuscated
for this to work.
When this annotation is used, there will be no intermediate AutoValue class generated (as opposed to the default logic,
which generates an intermediate class and generates the TypeAdapter as a static inner class of it).
@GenerateTypeAdapter is compatible with the factory approach above, just make your static method's implementation
point to it. It can also be an alternative to it if you use the runtime factory, particularly if you
have a multimodule project and are willing to accept a small amount of (heavily cached) reflection.
The generated class will have the same parameters as if it were the inner class. If it's generic, its constructor
accepts a Gson instance and TypeToken of the generics. If it's not generic, it's just a Gson instance.
Example usage:
@GenerateTypeAdapter
@AutoValue
public class Foo {
// ...
public static TypeAdapter<Foo> typeAdapter(Gson gson) {
return new Foo_GsonTypeAdapter(gson);
}
}
// Generates
public final class Foo_GsonTypeAdapter extends TypeAdapter<Foo> {
public Foo_GsonTypeAdapter(Gson gson) {
//...
}
}
// Or with generics
@GenerateTypeAdapter
@AutoValue
public class Foo<T> {
// ...
public static TypeAdapter<Foo> typeAdapter(Gson gson, TypeToken<? extends Foo<T>> typeToken) {
return new Foo_GsonTypeAdapter(gson, typeToken);
}
}
// Generates
public final class Foo_GsonTypeAdapter extends TypeAdapter<Foo> {
public Foo_GsonTypeAdapter(Gson gson, TypeToken<? extends Foo<T>> typeToken) {
//...
}
}
// Using the runtime FACTORY
new GsonBuilder()
.addTypeAdapterFactory(GenerateTypeAdapter.FACTORY)
.build()
.toJson(myFooInstance);If you are using R8 or ProGuard add the options from this file.
Android Gradle Plugin 3.3.0+ will automatically extract these rules. Note that for proguard support, you must use ProGuard 6.1.0beta2 or later.
Set android.proguard.enableRulesExtraction=false and then copy the proguard rules to your project like described above.
OR
Upgrade proguard to 6.1.0beta2:
buildscript {
configurations.all {
resolutionStrategy {
force 'net.sf.proguard:proguard-gradle:6.1.0beta2'
}
}
}OR
Enable R8 by setting android.enableR8=true.
Add a Gradle dependency to the apt and provided configuration.
annotationProcessor("com.ryanharter.auto.value:auto-value-gson:1.0.0")
implementation("com.ryanharter.auto.value:auto-value-gson-runtime:1.0.0")Snapshots of the latest development version are available in Sonatype's snapshots repository.
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