material-dialogs VS Gson

Seeing how the go-to library for Material Dialogs (2 and below) has not been updated in the last 2+ years, does anyone have a replacement or fork they’re happy with?

I use Material Dialog https://github.com/afollestad/material-dialogs which allows you to pass in HTML for the message which uses the color as I defined here.

See https://github.com/afollestad/material-dialogs/issues/2051

Project: Material Dialogs (A beautiful, fluid, and customizable dialogs API) Copyright (c) 2014-2016 Aidan Michael Follestad. License (The MIT License (MIT)) https://github.com/afollestad/material-dialogs/blob/master/LICENSE.txt

The Gson library could parse the string response to a JSON.

This library works very well. https://github.com/google/gson

GSON

(but tbh I would definitely suggest looking into Gson)

This is BTW not Kotlin's but Gson's fault. Gson does not know how to create data classes, and uses black magic to construct them with sun.misc.Unsafe calls. This skips all Kotlin's safeguards, creating essentially an object that should be impossible to exist in the JVM (that's why it's called "unsafe").

A lot of suggestions were made to look into custom (de)serializers, which is a good idea, but also a lot of work. I came across the “hidden” RuntimeTypeAdapterFactory class in the Gson repository which solved most of my problem quite nicely.

You will need to use an external library to deserialize the JSON. I'd suggest using gson (https://github.com/google/gson), because it does most of the heavy lifting for you (you basically just need to tell it what class you expect the json data to be deserialized as).

Java doesn't have a native library for nicely working with JSON. If you're able to use a 3rd party library I'd recommend something like gson to make things a lot easier. You can create a class to act as an object to represent the JSON data and unmarshall/deserialize each json line into an instance of that class. https://www.baeldung.com/gson-deserialization-guide should help a bit.

However, I do know that there isn't an inbuilt JSON parser within Java. So, you will need to include a third-party JSON parser library within your project. I've had experience with using gson for doing this myself, and that library is also rather easy to use.

I don't know a ton about Java, but is there a reason it's not as simple as stringifying your form data with JSON.stringify() when posting on the client and then using something like this Java library from google to parse the JSON string on the server?