Getting ready

Make sure you have the Gson dependency included in your project (https://github.com/google/gson). If you are using Gradle, build script that you can fetch it with the following declaration:

dependencies {
    compile 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.8.2'
}

In order to make a type argument accessible at runtime, we need to mark it with the reified modifier and mark the function as inline.