Any way to set/get position of the reader?

[Philippe Proulx]

Hi. I am trying to use Gson to read big JSON files. Suppose I have this:

{

  thing: { huge object here },

  something: { huge object here },

  somethingElse: 23

}

I want to use the JsonReader to stream the file. I need the "somethingElse" node first, so I need to skip over "thing" and "something", but then come back to the beggining of "something" to read it.

Is there any way to get a Reader (which JsonReader needs) that features random access of a file?

Thank you.

[Jesse Wilson]

There's no mark/reset functionality in JsonReader, which is what you'd need to accomplish this. But you probably don't need it. You can do something simpler: just read the whole thing twice. Calling skipValue() after reading the 'thing' key will be fast; the skip method is very fast!