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**Purpose**: Using GSON take an input stream of a large JSON file and expose it downstream functions as an Iterator; with the added constraint that I physically can't store the entire JSON File in memory.  Currently I do have this working using some basic Java code that does the following:

- knows when to skip curly braces 
 - read the stream until it finds the next valid JSON Object 
 - parse that into a POJO using GSON

**Desired Outcome** See if GSON has the built in ability to replace my custom Java code.

**SAMPLE INPUT DOCUMENT**

{
    	"header":
    	{
    		"header1":"value1",
    		"header2":"value2",
    		"header3":"value3"
    	},
    	"body":
    	{
    		"obj-1":
    		{
    			"id":"obj-1",
    			"name":"obj-1-name",
    			"description":"obj-1-description"
    		},
    		"obj-2":
    		{
    			"id":"obj-2",
    			"name":"obj-2-name",
    			"description":"obj-2-description"
    		},
    		"obj-3":
    		{
    			"id":"obj-3",
    			"name":"obj-3-name",
    			"description":"obj-3-description"
    		},
    		"obj-4":
    		{
    			"id":"obj-4",
    			"name":"obj-4-name",
    			"description":"obj-4-description"
    		}
    	}
    }

**SAMPLE OUTPUT DOCUMENT**

{
    	"header":
    	{
    		"header1":"value1",
    		"header2":"value2",
    		"header3":"value3"
    	},	
    	"object":
    	{
    		"id":"obj-1",
    		"name":"obj-1-name",
    		"description":"obj-1-description"
    	}
    }

POJO's have been created for the "header" object, the individual elements in the "body" JSON Object, and the output document.

Using the following as a stepping stone to initially solve the problem, https://howtodoinjava.com/gson/jsonreader-streaming-json-parser/, is it my understanding that since there is an transformation of the JSON Structure I would need to do that basic 3 step process; just translate it into GSON specific functions?

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