Currently, I am utilizing Retrofit and RxJava along with Gson for the purpose of parsing a JSON response. The JSON data structure that I have to work with is as follows:
{
"data": [
{
"name": "Featured Albums",
"slug": "featured-albums",
"items": [
{
"type": "album",
"title": "Ajambari",
"slug": "ajambariUPC027829302603",
"count": 10,
"duration": "",
"is_explicit": false,
"is_premium": false,
"is_trending": false,
"is_popular": false,
"is_featured": false,
"released_date": "",
"logo": ""
}
],
"total_items": 4,
"per_page_items": 6,
"prev_page_url": null,
"next_page_url": null,
"total_page": 1
},
{
"name": "Featured Movies",
"slug": "featured-movies",
"items": [
{
"id": 41,
"title": "Karamat",
"slug": "NPA0D1802638",
"logo": "",
"background":
"",
"playlist": false,
"count": 1,
"redirect_link": "",
"created_date": 2013
}
],
"total_items": 9,
"per_page_items": 6,
"prev_page_url": null,
"next_page_url": "",
"total_page": 2
}
]
}
One challenge I faced is that the "items" section can have varied structures. To tackle this issue, I decided to use JsonArray for parsing items in the following way:
public class HomeDatum extends RealmObject {
@SerializedName("name")
@Expose
private String name;
@SerializedName("slug")
@Expose
private String slug;
@SerializedName("items")
@Expose
private JsonArray items = null;
@SerializedName("total_items")
@Expose
private Integer totalItems;
@SerializedName("per_page_items")
@Expose
private Integer perPageItems;
@SerializedName("prev_page_url")
@Expose
private String prevPageUrl;
@SerializedName("next_page_url")
@Expose
private String nextPageUrl;
@SerializedName("total_page")
@Expose
private Integer totalPage;
// Getters and setters omitted for brevity
}
However, I encountered an error stating: Field "items" of type "com.google.gson.JsonArray" is not supported.. This error was thrown by Realm database. When I exclude Realm from the scenario, everything works smoothly.
My question is - how can I modify my approach to parse the aforementioned JSON data so that it can be supported by Realm database?
Thank you for your assistance!