Gson how to get serialized name

Question

When we define a class with following format

public class Field {
    @SerializedName("name")
    public String name;
    @SerializedName("category")
    public String category;

}

for the JsonObject content

{
    "name" : "string",
    "category" : "string",
}

and using Gson to parse the content

Field field = new GsonBuilder().create().fromJson(
                content, Field.class);

So,my question is can we use Gson to get the @Serialized name. For in this instance I want to know what @Serialized name is used for field.name,which is name and for field.category which is category.

As per suggested by @Sotirios Delimanolis, using Reflection we can get the Serialized name

java.lang.reflect.Field fields = Field.class.getDeclaredField("name");             
SerializedName sName =fields.getAnnotation(SerializedName.class);            
System.out.println(sName.value()); 

Answer 1

Use reflection to retrieve the Field object you want. You can then use Field#getAnnotation(Class) to get a SerializedName instance on which you can call value() to get the name.