Retrofit - removing some invalid characters from response body before parsing it as json

Question

I have an external web service that in the response body returns json but nested in parentheses, like this:

({\"door_x\":\"103994.001461\",\"door_y\":\"98780         


        

Answer 1

Alternative regex to convert from jsonp (dirty) to json (clean):

String clean = dirty.replaceFirst("(?s)^\\((.*)\\)$", "$1");