Gson, how to deserialize array or empty string

Question

I trying to deserialize this json to array of objects:

[{
    \"name\": \"item 1\",
    \"tags\": [\"tag1\"]
},
{
    \"name\": \"item 2\",
    \"tags\": [\"         


        

Answer 1

You are mixing datatypes. You cant have both an Array and a string. Change

"tags": ""

to

"tags": null

and you are good to go.