Improve relations to play nicer with server APIs (e.g. Retrofit, GSON, Jackson, Moshi, ...)

If you get object data from another source (e.g. server) you can make those data objects also ObjectBox entities. One thing has to be considered: relations on ObjectBox currently rely on ToOne and ToMany types, which 3rd party libraries are not aware of.

A quick work around would probably be to walk through the object graph and replace List objects with ToMany objects.

However, we could also look into supporting plain java.util.Lists in some way. A put would have to detect the type and do some additional syncing to figure out what to do. Or maybe just plainly put all objects in the list?

[ArthurSav]

I concur in regards to having an annotation based solution @ToOne @ToMany POJOS or in this case entities should not be closely tied to a database.

Having something like:

@Many List<Stuff> stuff

Would solve many of the issues here

[YBthebest]

Is there any news on this? Currently running into this exact same issue (of toOne’s not being recognised by a 3rd party), and would love to keep on using ObjectBox without having to build costly wrappers around everything…