tools.com.google.gson

Interface JsonSerializationContext

public interface JsonSerializationContext

Context for serialization that is passed to a custom serializer during invocation of its JsonSerializer.serialize(Object, Type, JsonSerializationContext) method.

Author:

Inderjeet Singh, Joel Leitch

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
JsonElement	serialize(java.lang.Object src) Invokes default serialization on the specified object.
JsonElement	serialize(java.lang.Object src, java.lang.reflect.Type typeOfSrc) Invokes default serialization on the specified object passing the specific type information.

Method Detail

serialize

JsonElement serialize(java.lang.Object src)

Invokes default serialization on the specified object.

Parameters:

src - the object that needs to be serialized.

Returns:

a tree of JsonElements corresponding to the serialized form of src.

serialize

JsonElement serialize(java.lang.Object src,
                      java.lang.reflect.Type typeOfSrc)

Invokes default serialization on the specified object passing the specific type information. It should never be invoked on the element received as a parameter of the JsonSerializer.serialize(Object, Type, JsonSerializationContext) method. Doing so will result in an infinite loop since Gson will in-turn call the custom serializer again.

Parameters:

src - the object that needs to be serialized.

typeOfSrc - the actual genericized type of src object.

Returns:

a tree of JsonElements corresponding to the serialized form of src.