flexi-gson

A more robust version of the Gson Java - JSON serialisation library. This can handle vague classes and circular references.

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Handling "Vague" classes

These occur when the container doesn't specify the type, which is problematic for json.

E.g. suppose you have the Java:

class Foo {
	Object x = new Bar();
}
class Bar {
	String y = ":)";
}

This will produce the json:

{"x":{"y":":)"}}

Note that the type information -- that x is an instance of Bar -- has been lost.

This case happens all the time in Java, either through using interfaces or Maps. So we'd like to handle it!

The Parent GSON: Version ??

This version of GSON was forked from ??

TODO now that gson has moved form Google Code to Git and GitHub -- it'd be good to fork the official repo and edit that.