Firebase Database Error - Expected a Map while deserializing, but got a class java.util.ArrayList

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Edit: Figured it out, check my posted answer if you\'re having similar issues.

I know there are several questions about this issue, but none of their s

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Alright, figured it out. If anyone reading this has this problem and are using incremented ints/longs/whatever that get converted to strings, you must add some characters to the converted int. Firebase apparently converts these keys back into non-Strings if it can be converted.

For example, if you do something like this:

int inc = 0;
inc++; // 1
map.put(String.valueOf(inc), someList);

Firebase interprets that key as 1 instead of "1".

So, to force Fb to intepret as a string, do something like this:

int inc = 0;
inc++; // 1
map.put(String.valueOf(inc) + "_key", someList);

And everything works out perfectly. Obviously if you also need to read those Strings back to ints, just split the string with "[_]" and you're good to go.