ext-gson is a simple extension library for Google Gson including a few extensions for the following libraries:

Dependencies

No ext-gson dependencies are bundled or planned to be bundled, so all dependencies are referenced with the provided scope.

What's introduced

Java pre-8

• java.util.Enumeration
• java.util.Iterator

Regular expressions

• java.util.regex.Pattern

Java 8

Optionals

• java.util.Optional
• java.util.OptionalDouble
• java.util.OptionalInt
• java.util.OptionalDouble

Streams

• java.util.stream.Collector
• java.util.stream.DoubleStream
• java.util.stream.IntStream
• java.util.stream.LongStream
• java.util.stream.Stream

Time

• java.time.DayOfWeek
• java.time.Duration
• java.time.Instant
• java.time.LocalDate
• java.time.LocalDateTime
• java.time.LocalTime
• java.time.Month
• java.time.MonthDay
• java.time.OffsetDateTime
• java.time.OffsetTime
• java.time.Period
• java.time.Year
• java.time.YearMonth
• java.time.ZonedDateTime

Java JSON API

• javax.json.JsonValue
• jakarta.json.JsonValue

Google Guava

Base

• com.google.common.base.Optional

Collections

• com.google.common.collect.BiMap
• com.google.common.collect.Multimap
• com.google.common.collect.Multiset
• com.google.common.collect.Table

Apache Commons Collections 4

• org.apache.commons.collections4.Bag
• org.apache.commons.collections4.BidiMap
• org.apache.commons.collections4.MultiSet
• org.apache.commons.collections4.MultiValuedMap

Jayway JsonPath

• com.jayway.jsonpath.JsonPath