Deserializing json from retrofit using jackson where same variable name can represent two different objects

Question

The response from retrofit2 may be of the following types.(and we don\'t know before hand which response will come)

{
    \"id\": \"abc\",
    \"place\": \"LA\",         


        

Answer 1

You can check whether the json has values inside it;

String jsonString= "{ ... }";
Object json = new JSONTokener(jsonString).nextValue();
 if (json instanceof JSONObject){ 
   //do operations related with object
 }
else if (json instanceof JSONArray) {
 //do operations based on an array
}