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/* Copyright (C) 2012 cloudbase.io This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */ package com.cloudbase; import java.lang.reflect.Type; import java.math.BigDecimal; import java.util.HashMap; import java.util.Map; import com.google.gson.JsonArray; import com.google.gson.JsonDeserializationContext; import com.google.gson.JsonDeserializer; import com.google.gson.JsonElement; import com.google.gson.JsonObject; import com.google.gson.JsonPrimitive; /** * This object is used internally to deserialize a cloudbase.io response. * @author Stefano Buliani * */ public class CBNaturalDeserializer implements JsonDeserializer<Object> { public Object deserialize(JsonElement json, Type typeOfT, JsonDeserializationContext context) { if (json.isJsonNull()) return null; else if (json.isJsonPrimitive()) return handlePrimitive(json.getAsJsonPrimitive()); else if (json.isJsonArray()) return handleArray(json.getAsJsonArray(), context); else return handleObject(json.getAsJsonObject(), context); } private Object handlePrimitive(JsonPrimitive json) { if (json.isBoolean()) return json.getAsBoolean(); else if (json.isString()) return json.getAsString(); else { BigDecimal bigDec = json.getAsBigDecimal(); // Find out if it is an int type try { bigDec.toBigIntegerExact(); try { return bigDec.intValueExact(); } catch (ArithmeticException e) { } return bigDec.longValue(); } catch (ArithmeticException e) { } // Just return it as a double return bigDec.doubleValue(); } } private Object handleArray(JsonArray json, JsonDeserializationContext context) { Object[] array = new Object[json.size()]; for (int i = 0; i < array.length; i++) array[i] = context.deserialize(json.get(i), Object.class); return array; } private Object handleObject(JsonObject json, JsonDeserializationContext context) { Map<String, Object> map = new HashMap<String, Object>(); for (Map.Entry<String, JsonElement> entry : json.entrySet()) map.put(entry.getKey(), context.deserialize(entry.getValue(), Object.class)); return map; } }