How do I convert collections into JSON?

By Wayan Saryada in Google Gson 0 Comment

This example show you how to convert Java collections object into JSON string. For Student class use in this example you can find it the previous example on How do I convert object into JSON?.

package org.kodejava.example.google.gson;

import com.google.gson.Gson;
import com.google.gson.reflect.TypeToken;

import java.lang.reflect.Type;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.List;

public class CollectionToJson {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // Converts a collection of string object into JSON string.
        List<String> names = new ArrayList<String>();
        names.add("Alice");
        names.add("Bob");
        names.add("Carol");
        names.add("Mallory");

        Gson gson = new Gson();
        String jsonNames = gson.toJson(names);
        System.out.println("jsonNames = " + jsonNames);

        // Converts a collection Student object into JSON string
        Student a = new Student("Alice", "Apple St", getDOB(2000, 10, 1));
        Student b = new Student("Bob", "Banana St", null);
        Student c = new Student("Carol", "Grape St", getDOB(2000, 5, 21));
        Student d = new Student("Mallory", "Mango St", null);

        List<Student> students = new ArrayList<Student>();
        students.add(a);
        students.add(b);
        students.add(c);
        students.add(d);

        gson = new Gson();
        String jsonStudents = gson.toJson(students);
        System.out.println("jsonStudents = " + jsonStudents);

        // Converts JSON string into a collection of Student object.
        Type type = new TypeToken<List<Student>>() {}.getType();
        List<Student> studentList = gson.fromJson(jsonStudents, type);

        for (Student student : studentList) {
            System.out.println("student.getName() = " + student.getName());
        }
    }

    private static Date getDOB(int year, int month, int date) {
        Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
        calendar.set(Calendar.YEAR, year);
        calendar.set(Calendar.MONTH, month - 1);
        calendar.set(Calendar.DATE, date);
        calendar.set(Calendar.HOUR, 0);
        calendar.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 0);
        calendar.set(Calendar.SECOND, 0);
        return calendar.getTime();
    }
}

Here is the result of our program:

jsonNames = ["Alice","Bob","Carol","Mallory"]
jsonStudents = [{"name":"Alice","address":"Apple St","dateOfBirth":"Nov 1, 3900 12:00:00 AM"},{"name":"Bob","address":"Banana St"},{"name":"Carol","address":"Grape St","dateOfBirth":"Jun 21, 3900 12:00:00 AM"},{"name":"Mallory","address":"Mango St"}]
student.getName() = Alice
student.getName() = Bob
student.getName() = Carol
student.getName() = Mallory

Maven Dependencies

<!-- http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/google/code/gson/gson/2.8.0/gson-2.8.0.jar -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.google.code.gson</groupId>
    <artifactId>gson</artifactId>
    <version>2.8.0</version>
</dependency>

How do I create type specific collections?

By Wayan Saryada in Java Basic 0 Comment 
package org.kodejava.example.fundamental;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

public class TypeSpecificCollection {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // Using a Generic can enable us to create a type specific collection
        // object. In the example below we create a Map whose key is an Integer
        // a have the value of a String.
        Map<Integer, String> grades = new HashMap<Integer, String>();
        grades.put(1, "A");
        grades.put(2, "B");
        grades.put(3, "C");
        grades.put(4, "D");
        grades.put(5, "E");

        // A value obtained from type specific collection doesn't not need to
        // be casted, it knows the type returned.
        String value = grades.get(1);
        System.out.println("value = " + value);

        // Creating a List that will contains a String only values.
        List<String> dayNames = new ArrayList<String>();
        dayNames.add("Sunday");
        dayNames.add("Monday");
        dayNames.add("Tuesday");
        dayNames.add("Wednesday");

        // We also don't need to cast the retrieved value because it knows the
        // returned type object.
        String firstDay = dayNames.get(0);
        System.out.println("firstDay = " + firstDay);
    }
}

How do I use for-each in Java?

By Wayan Saryada in Java Lang Package 0 Comment

Using for-each command to iterate arrays or a list can simplified our code. Below is an example how to do it in Java. The first loop is for iterating array and the second for iterating a list containing a some names.

package org.kodejava.example.lang;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

public class ForEachExample {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Integer[] numbers = {10, 100, 1000, 10000, 100000, 1000000};

        for (Integer i : numbers) {
            System.out.println("Number: " + i);
        }

        List<String> names = new ArrayList<String>();
        names.add("James");
        names.add("Joshua");
        names.add("Scott");

        for (String name : names) {
            System.out.println("Name: " + name);
        }
    }
}

How do I convert Array to Collection?

By Wayan Saryada in Java Util Package 0 Comment 
package org.kodejava.example.util;

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;

public class ArrayToListExample {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // Creates an array of object, in this case we create an
        // Integer array.
        Integer[] numbers = {1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55};

        // Convert the created array above to collection, in this
        // example we convert it to a List.
        List list = Arrays.asList(numbers);

        // We've got a list of our array here and iterate it.
        for (int i = 0; i < list.size(); i++) {
            System.out.print(list.get(i) + ", ");
        }
    }
}

How do I convert collection to ArrayList?

By Wayan Saryada in Java Util Package 0 Comment 
package org.kodejava.example.util;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.LinkedList;

public class CollectionToArrayList {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // We create LinkedList collection type at put some values
        // in it. Here we put A, B, C and D letter into it.
        LinkedList<String> linkedList = new LinkedList<String>();
        linkedList.push("A");
        linkedList.push("B");
        linkedList.push("C");
        linkedList.push("D");

        // Let say you want to convert it to other type of collection,
        // for instance here we convert it into ArrayList. To do it
        // we can pass the collection created above as a parameter to
        // ArrayList constructor.
        ArrayList<String> arrayList = new ArrayList<String>(linkedList);

        // Now we have converted the collection into ArrayList and
        // printed what is inside.
        for (String s : arrayList) {
            System.out.println("s = " + s);
        }
    }
}