Expected BEGIN ARRAY but was BEGIN OBJECT at line 1 column 2

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I m getting below error      Failed to parse JSON due to  com google gson JsonSyntaxException    java lang IllegalStateException  Expected BEGIN ARRAY but was   BEGIN OBJECT at line 1 column 2   Server Url   public static final String SERVER URL    https   maps googleapis com maps api timezone json location -37 8136 144 9631 amp timestamp 1389162695 amp sensor false     Perform the request      try              Create an HTTP client         HttpClient client   HttpClientBuilder create   build            HttpPost post   new HttpPost SERVER URL               Perform the request and check the status code         HttpResponse response   client execute post           StatusLine statusLine   response getStatusLine            if  statusLine getStatusCode      200                HttpEntity entity   response getEntity                InputStream content   entity getContent                 try                      Read the server response and attempt to parse it as JSON                 Reader reader   new InputStreamReader content                    GsonBuilder gsonBuilder   new GsonBuilder                    gsonBuilder setDateFormat  M d yy hh mm a                    Gson gson   gsonBuilder create                    List lt Post gt  postsList   Arrays asList gson fromJson reader                          Post   class                     content close                     for  Post p   postsList                        System out println p timeZoneId                                    catch  Exception ex                    System out println  Failed to parse JSON due to      ex                           else               System out println  Server responded with status code                          statusLine getStatusCode                     catch  Exception ex            System out                  println  Failed to send HTTP POST request due to      ex           Post class  public class Post       public String timeZoneId      public Post                How could I solve this

User · Answer

Response you are getting is in object form i.e.

{ 
  "dstOffset" : 3600, 
  "rawOffset" : 36000, 
  "status" : "OK", 
  "timeZoneId" : "Australia/Hobart", 
  "timeZoneName" : "Australian Eastern Daylight Time" 
}

Replace below line of code :

List<Post> postsList = Arrays.asList(gson.fromJson(reader,Post.class))

with

Post post = gson.fromJson(reader, Post.class);

User · Answer

You state in the comments that the returned JSON is this         dstOffset    3600      rawOffset    36000      status     OK       timeZoneId     Australia Hobart       timeZoneName     Australian Eastern Daylight Time       You re telling Gson that you have an array of Post objects   List lt Post gt  postsList   Arrays asList gson fromJson reader                      Post   class      You don t  The JSON represents exactly one Post object  and Gson is telling you that    Change your code to be   Post post   gson fromJson reader  Post class

[java] Expected BEGIN_ARRAY but was BEGIN_OBJECT at line 1 column 2

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