Below code should work for your case.

List<Customer> customerList = CustomerDB.selectAll();

Gson gson = new Gson();
JsonElement element = gson.toJsonTree(customerList, new TypeToken<List<Customer>>() {}.getType());

if (! element.isJsonArray() ) {
// fail appropriately
    throw new SomeException();
}

JsonArray jsonArray = element.getAsJsonArray();

Heck, use List interface to collect values before converting it JSON Tree.

Definitely the easiest way to do that is using Gson's default parsing function fromJson().

There is an implementation of this function suitable for when you need to deserialize into any ParameterizedType (e.g., any List), which is fromJson(JsonElement json, Type typeOfT).

In your case, you just need to get the Type of a List<String> and then parse the JSON array into that Type, like this:

import java.lang.reflect.Type;
import com.google.gson.reflect.TypeToken;

JsonElement yourJson = mapping.get("servers");
Type listType = new TypeToken<List<String>>() {}.getType();

List<String> yourList = new Gson().fromJson(yourJson, listType);

In your case yourJson is a JsonElement, but it could also be a String, any Reader or a JsonReader.

You may want to take a look at Gson API documentation.

This way is worked for me:

Convert all list to String.

String element = gson.toJson(
                    groupsList,
           new TypeToken<ArrayList<GroupItem>>() {}.getType());

Create JSONArray from String:

    JSONArray list = new JSONArray(element);

There is a sample from google gson documentation on how to actually convert the list to json string:

CopyType listType = new TypeToken<List<String>>() {}.getType();
 List<String> target = new LinkedList<String>();
 target.add("blah");

 Gson gson = new Gson();
 String json = gson.toJson(target, listType);
 List<String> target2 = gson.fromJson(json, listType);

You need to set the type of list in toJson method and pass the list object to convert it to json string or vice versa.

Here's a comprehensive example on how to use Gson with a list of objects. This should demonstrate exactly how to convert to/from Json, how to reference lists, etc.

Test.java:

import com.google.gson.Gson;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import com.google.gson.reflect.TypeToken;
import java.lang.reflect.Type;


public class Test {

  public static void main (String[] args) {

    // Initialize a list of type DataObject
    List<DataObject> objList = new ArrayList<DataObject>();
    objList.add(new DataObject(0, "zero"));
    objList.add(new DataObject(1, "one"));
    objList.add(new DataObject(2, "two"));

    // Convert the object to a JSON string
    String json = new Gson().toJson(objList);
    System.out.println(json);

    // Now convert the JSON string back to your java object
    Type type = new TypeToken<List<DataObject>>(){}.getType();
    List<DataObject> inpList = new Gson().fromJson(json, type);
    for (int i=0;i<inpList.size();i++) {
      DataObject x = inpList.get(i);
      System.out.println(x);
    }

  }


  private static class DataObject {
    private int a;
    private String b;

    public DataObject(int a, String b) {
      this.a = a;
      this.b = b;
    }

    public String toString() {
      return "a = " +a+ ", b = " +b;
    }
  }

}

To compile it:

javac -cp "gson-2.1.jar:." Test.java

And finally to run it:

java -cp "gson-2.1.jar:." Test

Note that if you're using Windows, you'll have to switch : with ; in the previous two commands.

After you run it, you should see the following output:

[{"a":0,"b":"zero"},{"a":1,"b":"one"},{"a":2,"b":"two"}]
a = 0, b = zero
a = 1, b = one
a = 2, b = two

Keep in mind that this is only a command line program to demonstrate how it works, but the same principles apply within the Android environment (referencing jar libs, etc.)

Problem is caused by comma at the end of (in your case each) JSON object placed in the array:

{
    "number": "...",
    "title": ".." ,  //<- see that comma?
}

If you remove them your data will become

[
    {
        "number": "3",
        "title": "hello_world"
    }, {
        "number": "2",
        "title": "hello_world"
    }
]

and

Wrapper[] data = gson.fromJson(jElement, Wrapper[].class);

should work fine.

If you see the answer there, you can notice that the first parameter in the fromJson() method was a String(the json object). Try to use the toString() on the JsonArray like this:-

List<MyModel> myModelList = gson.fromJson(jsonArray.toString(), listType);