Add custom indent for pretty printing

It would be great if we can specify custom indent while call pretty printing. Currently pretty printing always use 2 spaces for indent. This customization also allows to reduce size of resulting json. Comparison table and code for generating json below:

Indent \ setsCount	100	2000
2 spaces	99,7 kb	50,9 MB
1 tab	79,5 kb	42,9 MB
nothing	59,3 kb	34,9 MB

        List<Set<Integer>> sets = new ArrayList<Set<Integer>>();
        int setsCount = 2000;
        for (int setN = 0; setN < setsCount; setN++) {
            TreeSet<Integer> set = new TreeSet<Integer>();
            for (int i = 0; i < setsCount; i++) {
                set.add(setN * setsCount + i);
            }
            sets.add(set);
        }

        String json = gsonManager.getGson().toJson(sets);

[WasylF]

My team’s project stores some large configuration data in the git repository as JSON. If I don’t use pretty option the resulting file contains a single line with the whole JSON, so git couldn’t show a difference between different versions. Currently, I use pretty JSON, but in my case, it increases the size of the JSON from 30 - 40 MB up to 100+ MB. Bigger resulting JSON also requires more RAM for converting. So, I suppose it would be cool to have such feature as a custom indent. And the other reason is that war between people using tabs and spaces is endless:) So, it is great to have both options.

[bonoboris]

I agree, if you are appending to an existing Json with either 2, 4 spaces or tab indent, it would be nice to have such a feature. I’m actually suprised there isn’t.