Json like string to Json in Android

Question

I am getting a json like string which have = symbol instead of :. as shown below

{reply={messageId=4.30486913E8, mimeType=image/jpeg, sender=panipaali@gmail.com, type=file, thumbnail=/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQAASABIAAD/4QBYRXhpZgAATU0AKgAAAAgAAgESAAMAAAAB
AAEAAIdpAAQAAAABAAAAJgAAAAAAA6ABAAMAAAABAAEAAKACAAQAAAABAAAAIKAD
AAQAAAABAAAAKwAAAAD/7QA4UGhvdG9zaG9wIDMuMAA4QklNBAQAAAAAAAA4QklN
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kkEHIPIOa8GGIqqfNLZP59uv/APVq4Cm17rf6H//2Q==}}

I used the GSON library for parsing this string by using the below code

data class ChatReplyDTO(
    val messageId: Long,
    val message: String?,
    val sender: String,
    val mimeType: String?,
    val type: String?,
    val thumbnail: String?
)

data class ChatReplyObjectDTO(val reply: ChatReplyDTO)

val classType = object : TypeToken<ChatReplyObjectDTO>() {}.type
val reply = Gson().fromJson<ChatReplyObjectDTO>(dataFormatted, classType)

But error happening in forward slash of mimeType=image/jpeg. So I replaced it with an empty string for testing. Then there is another error introduced by thumbnail value. If I remove mimeType and thumbnail key and value from the string, it perfectly worked by setting null in those fields in the DTO object and other fields are filled with correct values. I referred to another StackOverflow solutions which has several strings replace functionality and nothing worked. Do we have any simple library like Gson to resolve this problem?

One important thing is, messageId and sender are mandatory. All other fields might not be there with other json.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65930852/json-like-string-to-json-in-android

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