How to deserialize an object using gson for Java
Like Json.NET, gson provides a way to specify the destination class to which you're deserializing a JSON object. In fact, it's the same method you used in the recipe Reading and writing JSON in Java, in Chapter 1, Reading and Writing JSON on the Client.
Getting ready
You'll need to include the gson JAR file in your application, just as you would for any other external API.
How to do it…
You use the same method as you use for type-unsafe JSON parsing using gson using fromJson, except you pass the class object to gson as the second argument, like this:
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