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Realm, GSON and primitive JSON arrays
// Make a custom Gson instance, with a custom TypeAdapter for each wrapper object.
// In this instance we only have RealmList<RealmInt> as a a wrapper for RealmList<Integer>
Type token = new TypeToken<RealmList<RealmInt>>(){}.getType();
Gson gson = new GsonBuilder()
.setExclusionStrategies(new ExclusionStrategy() {
@Override
public boolean shouldSkipField(FieldAttributes f) {
return f.getDeclaringClass().equals(RealmObject.class);
}
@Override
public boolean shouldSkipClass(Class<?> clazz) {
return false;
}
})
.registerTypeAdapter(token, new TypeAdapter<RealmList<RealmInt>>() {
@Override
public void write(JsonWriter out, RealmList<RealmInt> value) throws IOException {
// Ignore
}
@Override
public RealmList<RealmInt> read(JsonReader in) throws IOException {
RealmList<RealmInt> list = new RealmList<RealmInt>();
in.beginArray();
while (in.hasNext()) {
list.add(new RealmInt(in.nextInt()));
}
in.endArray();
return list;
}
})
.create();
// Convert JSON to objects as normal
List<MainObject> objects = gson.fromJson(json, new TypeToken<List<MainObject>>(){}.getType());
// Copy objects to Realm
realm.beginTransaction();
realm.copyToRealm(objects);
realm.commitTransaction();
[
{ "name" : "Foo",
"ints" : [1, 2, 3]
},
{ "name" : "Bar",
"ints" : []
}
]
public class MainObject extends RealmObject {
private String name;
private RealmList<RealmInt> ints;
// Getters and setters
}
public class RealmInt extends RealmObject {
private int val;
public RealmInt() {
}
public RealmInt(int val) {
this.val = val;
}
// Getters and setters
}
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