“Expected BEGIN_OBJECT but was STRING at line 1 column 1”

Question

I have this method:

public static Object parseStringToObject(String json) {
    String Object = json;
    Gson gson = new Gson();
    Object objects = gson.f         


        

Answer 1

I had a case where I read from a handwritten json file. The json is perfect. However, this error occurred. So I write from a java object to json file, then read from that json file. things are fine. I could not see any difference between the handwritten json and the one from java object. Tried beyondCompare it sees no difference. I finally noticed the two file sizes are slightly different, and I used winHex tool and detected extra stuff. So the solution for my situation is, make copy of the good json file, paste content into it and use.