A JSONObject text must begin with '{' error

Question

I have this JSON coming from one of our REST service:

[
    \"{\\\"category_name\\\":[\\\"Industry Components\\\"],\\\"categoryId\\\":[1]}\",
    \"{\\\"category         


        

Answer 1

instead

JSONObject jsonObject = new JSONObject(jsonStr);

use

JSONArray jsonArray = new JSONArray(jsonStr);

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