Custom converter for Retrofit 2

Question

I have to handle a dynamic JSON responses.

Before, I was using classes and annotations as follows:

public class ChatResponse {

    @SerializedName("status")
    private int status;

    @SerializedName("error")
    private String error;

    @SerializedName("response")
    private Talk response;

    public int getStatus() {
        return status;
    }

    public String getError() {
        return error;
    }

    public Talk getResponse() {
        return response;
    }
}

When the status is 1 (success) the onResponse is fired and I can get a ChatResponse object. But, when the status is 0, the response is false in the JSON representation and it fails (onFailure is fired).

I want to create my custom converter, and this question has a good example, but that example is for Retrofit 1.

I have to create a class that extends Converter.Factory, but I don't know how to override the methods of this class.

Actually I have the next:

@Override
public Converter<ResponseBody, ?> fromResponseBody(Type type, Annotation[] annotations) {

    return super.fromResponseBody(type, annotations);
}

@Override
public Converter<?, RequestBody> toRequestBody(Type type, Annotation[] annotations) {

    return super.toRequestBody(type, annotations);
}

How I can parse the JSON response by my own at this point?

Thanks in advance.

check this example using [custom deserializers](https://stackoverflow.com/a/46320656/8009433) — Navneet Krishna, May 16 '18 at 08:15

JCarlosR · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-01T04:27:12.150

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I was looking for a simple example about how to implement a custom converter for Retrofit 2. Unfortunately found none.

I found this example but, at least for me, it's too complicated for my purpose.

Happilly, I found a solution.

This solution is to use GSON deserializers.

We don't need to create a custom converter, we just have to customize the GSON converter.

Here is a great tutorial. And here is the code I used to parse the JSON described in my question:

Login Deserializer: Defines how to parse the JSON as an object of our target class (using conditionals and whatever we need).
Custom GSON converter: Builds a GSON converter that uses our custom deserializer.

edited Jun 01 '20 at 04:27

answered Feb 20 '16 at 03:38

JCarlosR

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This would add a static converter factory for same type of response. What if I want to make parsing of different response objects optional? I may have varied responses for various apis with optionsl and fixed response objects. – Rushi M Thakker Aug 23 '17 at 07:29
For a simple example you could have a look at retrofit's scalars converters: https://github.com/square/retrofit/tree/master/retrofit-converters/scalars/src/main/java/retrofit2/converter/scalars – simne7 Mar 06 '20 at 14:26
Client asked to update the repository as private. But I just updated the links using a GitHub gist. – JCarlosR Jun 01 '20 at 04:29

score 9 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 16 '18 at 16:56

I found @JCarlos solution to be precise, quick and correct. I needed to implement custom Date converter for Retrofit 2 on Android. It seems that you need to register a new type serializer in GSonConverterFactory. Implementation is done in Kotlin lang.

class RetrofitDateSerializer : JsonSerializer<Date> {
    override fun serialize(srcDate: Date?, typeOfSrc: Type?, context: JsonSerializationContext?): JsonElement? {
        if (srcDate == null)
            return null
        val dateFormat = SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss")
        val formatted = dateFormat.format(srcDate)
        return JsonPrimitive(formatted)
    }
}

and the registration:

private fun buildGsonConverterFactory(): GsonConverterFactory {
    val gsonBuilder = GsonBuilder()
    // Custom DATE Converter for Retrofit
    gsonBuilder.registerTypeAdapter(Date::class.java, RetrofitDateSerializer())
    return GsonConverterFactory.create(gsonBuilder.create())
}

@Provides @Singleton
internal fun providesRetrofit(applicationContext: Context): Retrofit {
    return Retrofit.Builder()
            .baseUrl(GluApp.Static.BASE_REST_URL_ADDR)
            .addConverterFactory(
                    buildGsonConverterFactory())
            .build()
}

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 07 '16 at 11:10

compile these two library for retrofit2

compile 'com.squareup.retrofit2:retrofit:2.1.0'
compile 'com.squareup.retrofit2:converter-gson:2.0.2'


import com.lendingkart.prakhar.lendingkartdemo.retrofitPOJOResponse.DocsNameResponse;
import com.lendingkart.prakhar.lendingkartdemo.retrofitrequests.DocName;

import retrofit2.Call;
import retrofit2.Retrofit;
import retrofit2.converter.gson.GsonConverterFactory;
import retrofit2.http.Body;
import retrofit2.http.Multipart;
import retrofit2.http.POST;
import retrofit2.http.Part;
import retrofit2.http.PartMap;


    public interface APIInterface {

        String ENDPOINT = "https://app.xxxxxxxxx.com/";


        @POST("lkart/api/docs")
        Call<DocsNameResponse> DOCS_NAME_RESPONSE_CALL(@Body DocName docName);



        public static final Retrofit retrofit = new Retrofit.Builder()
                .baseUrl(APIInterface.ENDPOINT)
                .addConverterFactory(GsonConverterFactory.create())
                .build();

    }

call like these where you want to

        String doc_name = "Loans/jdfjdanklnadkm;cnak_";
        APIInterface apiInterface = APIInterface.retrofit.create(APIInterface.class);


   Call<DocsNameResponse> DocsCall = apiInterface.DOCS_NAME_RESPONSE_CALL(new DocName(doc_name));
        DocsCall.enqueue(new Callback<DocsNameResponse>() {
            @Override
            public void onResponse(Call<DocsNameResponse> call, Response<DocsNameResponse> response) {
                Log.d("APIResult", String.valueOf(response.body().getData().get(3).getName()));
            }

            @Override
            public void onFailure(Call<DocsNameResponse> call, Throwable t) {
                Log.d("APIError", t.getMessage());
            }
        });

and two files for the request and response are

DocName

public class DocName {
    private String name;

    public DocName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    /**
     * @return The name
     */
    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    /**
     * @param name The name
     */
    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

}

DocNameResponse You can use http://www.jsonschema2pojo.org/ to convert your JSON to below written format by choosing SourceType : JSON and Annotation Style : GSON

import com.google.gson.annotations.Expose;
import com.google.gson.annotations.SerializedName;



import java.util.List;


public class DocsNameResponse {

    @SerializedName("message")
    @Expose
    private String message;
    @SerializedName("statusCode")
    @Expose
    private Integer statusCode;
    @SerializedName("data")
    @Expose
    private List<Datum> data = null;
    @SerializedName("list")
    @Expose
    private Object list;
    @SerializedName("cscStatus")
    @Expose
    private Boolean cscStatus;
    @SerializedName("status")
    @Expose
    private Object status;
    @SerializedName("eligibleStatus")
    @Expose
    private Boolean eligibleStatus;
    @SerializedName("pwd")
    @Expose
    private Object pwd;
    @SerializedName("uname")
    @Expose
    private Object uname;
    @SerializedName("assignedToList")
    @Expose
    private Object assignedToList;

    /**
     * @return The message
     */
    public String getMessage() {
        return message;
    }

    /**
     * @param message The message
     */
    public void setMessage(String message) {
        this.message = message;
    }

    /**
     * @return The statusCode
     */
    public Integer getStatusCode() {
        return statusCode;
    }

    /**
     * @param statusCode The statusCode
     */
    public void setStatusCode(Integer statusCode) {
        this.statusCode = statusCode;
    }

    /**
     * @return The data
     */
    public List<Datum> getData() {
        return data;
    }

    /**
     * @param data The data
     */
    public void setData(List<Datum> data) {
        this.data = data;
    }

    /**
     * @return The list
     */
    public Object getList() {
        return list;
    }

    /**
     * @param list The list
     */
    public void setList(Object list) {
        this.list = list;
    }

    /**
     * @return The cscStatus
     */
    public Boolean getCscStatus() {
        return cscStatus;
    }

    /**
     * @param cscStatus The cscStatus
     */
    public void setCscStatus(Boolean cscStatus) {
        this.cscStatus = cscStatus;
    }

    /**
     * @return The status
     */
    public Object getStatus() {
        return status;
    }

    /**
     * @param status The status
     */
    public void setStatus(Object status) {
        this.status = status;
    }

    /**
     * @return The eligibleStatus
     */
    public Boolean getEligibleStatus() {
        return eligibleStatus;
    }

    /**
     * @param eligibleStatus The eligibleStatus
     */
    public void setEligibleStatus(Boolean eligibleStatus) {
        this.eligibleStatus = eligibleStatus;
    }

    /**
     * @return The pwd
     */
    public Object getPwd() {
        return pwd;
    }

    /**
     * @param pwd The pwd
     */
    public void setPwd(Object pwd) {
        this.pwd = pwd;
    }

    /**
     * @return The uname
     */
    public Object getUname() {
        return uname;
    }

    /**
     * @param uname The uname
     */
    public void setUname(Object uname) {
        this.uname = uname;
    }

    /**
     * @return The assignedToList
     */
    public Object getAssignedToList() {
        return assignedToList;
    }

    /**
     * @param assignedToList The assignedToList
     */
    public void setAssignedToList(Object assignedToList) {
        this.assignedToList = assignedToList;
    }


    public class Datum {

        @SerializedName("id")
        @Expose
        private Object id;
        @SerializedName("name")
        @Expose
        private String name;
        @SerializedName("applicationId")
        @Expose
        private Object applicationId;
        @SerializedName("userId")
        @Expose
        private Object userId;
        @SerializedName("documentName")
        @Expose
        private String documentName;
        @SerializedName("documentType")
        @Expose
        private Object documentType;
        @SerializedName("freshloan")
        @Expose
        private Object freshloan;

        /**
         * @return The id
         */
        public Object getId() {
            return id;
        }

        /**
         * @param id The id
         */
        public void setId(Object id) {
            this.id = id;
        }

        /**
         * @return The name
         */
        public String getName() {
            return name;
        }

        /**
         * @param name The name
         */
        public void setName(String name) {
            this.name = name;
        }

        /**
         * @return The applicationId
         */
        public Object getApplicationId() {
            return applicationId;
        }

        /**
         * @param applicationId The applicationId
         */
        public void setApplicationId(Object applicationId) {
            this.applicationId = applicationId;
        }

        /**
         * @return The userId
         */
        public Object getUserId() {
            return userId;
        }

        /**
         * @param userId The userId
         */
        public void setUserId(Object userId) {
            this.userId = userId;
        }

        /**
         * @return The documentName
         */
        public String getDocumentName() {
            return documentName;
        }

        /**
         * @param documentName The documentName
         */
        public void setDocumentName(String documentName) {
            this.documentName = documentName;
        }

        /**
         * @return The documentType
         */
        public Object getDocumentType() {
            return documentType;
        }

        /**
         * @param documentType The documentType
         */
        public void setDocumentType(Object documentType) {
            this.documentType = documentType;
        }

        /**
         * @return The freshloan
         */
        public Object getFreshloan() {
            return freshloan;
        }

        /**
         * @param freshloan The freshloan
         */
        public void setFreshloan(Object freshloan) {
            this.freshloan = freshloan;
        }

    }

}

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 10 '18 at 10:41

Here is an example.

Shortly:

Gson gson = new GsonBuilder()
     .registerTypeAdapter(MyClass.class, new MyClassTypeAdapter())
     .create();

Retrofit retrofit = new Retrofit.Builder()  
     .baseUrl("https://api.github.com")
     .addConverterFactory(GsonConverterFactory.create(gson))
     .build();

Custom converter for Retrofit 2

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