Support Type References For DeSerialization about unirest-java HOT 3 CLOSED

cc @petrdvorak Hi, this is a fork attempting to pick up where Unirest left off.

The problem here is twofold:

1. Unirest does not come with a json ObjectMapper, you have to supply that, it only has the original org.json package
2. TypeReference is a Jackson thing and isn't standard java. In gson they use TypeToken to do the same thing, Spring similarly has yet another of this famous hack.

Still there may be a way to pass one through to the Object Mapper. I'll take a look. If we can do it without taking sides then we will.

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While I understand this might require a wider community consensus, looking into the docs, I wouldn't mind having Guava (that provides own TypeToken class) as a provided dependency for Unirest. We add it in all our projects anyway...

If having the extra dependency is an issue, just adding this topic in documentation would help - I remember I spent too much time when dealing with this issue for the first time. (Currently, we have it resolved in our projects.)

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Hi @petrdvorak, sorry this has taken a while to get to. I ended up implementing my own Generic Type Reference. You can see how it's used here:

https://github.com/OpenUnirest/unirest-java/blob/master/src/test/java/BehaviorTests/AsGenericTypeTest.java

This can be used with either Jackson like this:
https://github.com/OpenUnirest/unirest-java/blob/master/src/test/java/io/github/openunirest/http/JacksonObjectMapper.java#L44-L50

Or With Gson
https://github.com/OpenUnirest/unirest-java/blob/master/src/test/java/io/github/openunirest/http/GsonObjectMapper.java#L15-L18

Or I suspect with any number of other mapping libraries.

2.4.00 should be in mvn central in about 20 minutes

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