Gson 2.3 and why you want it

When Gson binding fails, it gives you a crappy exception that tells you where in the document things went sideways:

com.google.gson.JsonSyntaxException: Expected a boolean but was NUMBER at line 1 column 4728
	at com.google.gson.stream.JsonReader.nextBoolean()
	at com.google.gson.TypeAdapters$3.read()
	at com.google.gson.TypeAdapters$3.read()
	at com.google.gson.ReflectiveTypeAdapter$1.read()
	at com.google.gson.ReflectiveTypeAdapter$Adapter.read()
	at com.google.gson.ReflectiveTypeAdapter$Adapter.read()
	at com.google.gson.ReflectiveTypeAdapter$1.read()
	at com.google.gson.ReflectiveTypeAdapter$Adapter.read()
    ...

With Gson 2.3, you get a much nicer exception. It tells you the JSONPath to the failure. In this case, $.history[0].change_status.deletions:

com.google.gson.JsonSyntaxException: Expected a boolean but was NUMBER at line 1 column 4728 path $.history[0].change_status.deletions
	at com.google.gson.stream.JsonReader.nextBoolean()
	at com.google.gson.TypeAdapters$3.read()
	at com.google.gson.TypeAdapters$3.read()
	at com.google.gson.ReflectiveTypeAdapter$1.read()
	at com.google.gson.ReflectiveTypeAdapter$Adapter.read()
	at com.google.gson.ReflectiveTypeAdapter$Adapter.read()
	at com.google.gson.ReflectiveTypeAdapter$1.read()
	at com.google.gson.ReflectiveTypeAdapter$Adapter.read()
    ...

Get Gson 2.3 from the project site or Maven Central:

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.google.code.gson</groupId>
  <artifactId>gson</artifactId>
  <version>2.3</version>
</dependency>