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Json2Java
I was fed up with writing Java classes to mirror json models. So I wrote this Java app to automate the process.
<h3>What this tool can do right now:</h3> Give it: <ul> <li>a url to a json file</li> <li>a package name for the classes it will generate</li> <li>the name of the base class to start with.</li> <li>optionally, the p option will make your classes parcelable.</li> <li>optionally, the g option will give your classes gson annotations for serialization.</li> <li>optionally, the s option will override the toString method.</li> </ul>It will create the folder structure for the package you provide, then it will read the json at the url you provide, and output java classes into a zip file.
The easiest way to actuall use this is to go to http://jsontojava.appspot.com/
There you can just put in the variables and click download.
When run from the commandline, it looks like this:
java -jar JsonToJava.jar -url http://example.com/folder.json -package com.example.api.model -class Folder -p -g
Each class will implement Parcelable for easy passing of information in Android (optional). Each class will have a default empty constructor. The members of each class will follow Android naming conventions with an "m" prefix and camel case. Each member will have a corresponding static final String that relates it to it's json counterpart Each member will have a @SerializedName annotation for very easy Gson parsing. (optional) If a member called "mId" or "mUniqueId" is found, then equals and hashcode will be overridden so comparisons are made on the id.
<h3>What I want this tool to do in the future in no particular order</h3> <ul> <li>Accept either a url or a block of json pasted in a text box</li> <li>Extract superclasses</li> <li>Accept multiple urls to build up the whole model</li> <li>Allow the user to choose between Gson annotations, Jackson annotations, org.json constructors and toJson() methods, or none of the above</li> <li>Give users the ability to rename classes</li> <li>Give users the ability to ignore classes</li> </ul>