Replace null with empty string on serialization

[abp]

Hi,

is it possible to write an empty string instead of null to the json,
when it encounters nulls in my pojos?

[Angel Aguilera]

On Dec 2, 1:36 pm, abp <adr...@needful.de> wrote:
> is it possible to write an empty string instead of null to the json,
> when it encounters nulls in my pojos?

My bet would be to define a custom converter for the String class.
Something like this:

public class StringConverter implements JsonSerializer<String>,
JsonDeserializer<String> {
public JsonElement serialize(String src, Type typeOfSrc,
JsonSerializationContext context) {
if ( src == null ) {
return new JsonPrimitive("");
} else {
return new JsonPrimitive(src.toString());
}

public String deserialize(JsonElement json, Type typeOfT,
JsonDeserializationContext context)
throws JsonParseException {
return json.getAsJsonPrimitive().getAsString();
}
}


After that, in the class you want to serialize, you must register the
converter in your gson object:

GsonBuilder gb = new GsonBuilder();
gb.registerTypeAdapter(String.class, new StringConverter());
Gson gson = gb.create();

Then you can use the "gson" object to serialize your objects.

[abp]

Hm yeah, but i meant nulls of all types.

[Hanuman G]

This didn't work for me, so i ended up doing like this   using Gson gson = new GsonBuilder().serializeNulls().create();

        String json = gson.toJson(obj5); json = json.replaceall("null","\"\"");  may  be it will be slow  if  u have  very  large string with null values . not sure about performance. Its disappointing  API  is unable  to  support   as in the below code.