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

Try this

JSONObject jsonObject = new JSONObject("your Response String");
Object obj = jsonObject.get("driverId");    //handle Exceptions
if (obj instanceof String){ 
   //do String stuff
}
else if (obj instanceof JSONObject) {
   //do json object stuff
}