initial gson project

gson/src/test/java/org/baeldung/gson/deserialization/GenericSourceClass.java

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+package org.baeldung.gson.deserialization;
+
+public class GenericSourceClass {
+    int intField;
+
+    public GenericSourceClass(final int i) {
+        intField = i;
+    }
+
+}

gson/src/test/java/org/baeldung/gson/deserialization/test/GsonDeserializationUnitTest.java

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+package org.baeldung.gson.deserialization.test;
+
+import org.baeldung.gson.deserialization.GenericSourceClass;
+import org.junit.Before;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import com.google.gson.Gson;
+import com.google.gson.reflect.TypeToken;
+
+public class GsonDeserializationUnitTest {
+
+    private Gson gson;
+
+    @Before
+    public final void before() {
+        gson = new Gson();
+    }
+
+    // tests
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenUsingGson_whenDeserializingGeneric_thenCorrect() {
+        final java.lang.reflect.Type genericSourceClassType = new TypeToken<GenericSourceClass>() {
+        }.getType();
+        final GenericSourceClass sourceObject = new GenericSourceClass(1);
+        final String serializedSourceObject = gson.toJson(sourceObject, genericSourceClassType);
+
+        final GenericSourceClass targetObject = gson.fromJson(serializedSourceObject, genericSourceClassType);
+
+        System.out.println(targetObject);
+    }
+
+}

gson/src/test/resources/.gitignore

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+*.class
+
+#folders#
+/target
+/neoDb*
+/data
+/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/classes
+*/META-INF/*
+
+# Packaged files #
+*.jar
+*.war
+*.ear