java - How to convert a String to JsonObject using gson library

Question

Please advice how to convert a String to JsonObject using gson library.

What I unsuccesfully do:

String string = "abcde";
Gson gson = new Gson();
JsonObject json = new JsonObject();
json = gson.toJson(string); // Can't convert String to JsonObject

Answer 1

You can convert it to a JavaBean if you want using:

 Gson gson = new GsonBuilder().setPrettyPrinting().create();
 gson.fromJson(jsonString, JavaBean.class)

To use JsonObject, which is more flexible, use the following:

String json = "{"Success":true,"Message":"Invalid access token."}";
JsonParser jsonParser = new JsonParser();
JsonObject jo = (JsonObject)jsonParser.parse(json);
Assert.assertNotNull(jo);
Assert.assertTrue(jo.get("Success").getAsString());

Which is equivalent to the following:

JsonElement jelem = gson.fromJson(json, JsonElement.class);
JsonObject jobj = jelem.getAsJsonObject();