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/* * Copyright 2013 Uwe Trottmann * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. * */ package com.uwetrottmann.tmdb; import com.google.gson.GsonBuilder; import com.google.gson.JsonDeserializationContext; import com.google.gson.JsonDeserializer; import com.google.gson.JsonElement; import com.google.gson.JsonParseException; import java.lang.reflect.Type; import java.text.ParseException; import java.text.SimpleDateFormat; import java.util.Date; public class TmdbHelper { /** Format for decoding JSON dates in string format. */ private static final SimpleDateFormat JSON_STRING_DATE = new SimpleDateFormat("yyy-MM-dd"); /** * Create a {@link com.google.gson.GsonBuilder} and register all of the custom types needed in * order to properly deserialize complex TMDb-specific types. * * @return Assembled GSON builder instance. */ public static GsonBuilder getGsonBuilder() { GsonBuilder builder = new GsonBuilder(); // class types builder.registerTypeAdapter(Integer.class, new JsonDeserializer<Integer>() { @Override public Integer deserialize(JsonElement json, Type typeOfT, JsonDeserializationContext context) throws JsonParseException { try { return Integer.valueOf(json.getAsInt()); } catch (NumberFormatException e) { return null; } } }); builder.registerTypeAdapter(Date.class, new JsonDeserializer<Date>() { @Override public Date deserialize(JsonElement json, Type typeOfT, JsonDeserializationContext context) throws JsonParseException { try { return JSON_STRING_DATE.parse(json.getAsString()); } catch (ParseException e) { return null; } } }); return builder; } }