GSON throwing “Expected BEGIN_OBJECT but was BEGIN_ARRAY”?

Question

I\'m trying to parse a JSON string like this one

[
   {
      \"updated_at\":\"2012-03-02 21:06:01\",
      \"fetched_at\":\"2012-03-02 21:28:37.728840\",
           


        

Answer 1

The problem is that you are asking for an object of type ChannelSearchEnum but what you actually have is an object of type List.

You can achieve this with:

Type collectionType = new TypeToken>(){}.getType();
List lcs = (List) new Gson()
               .fromJson( jstring , collectionType);