Error occurs when parsing JSON with GSON...HELP NEEDED!!!

[Muthiah Subbiah]

I have a an android app that is trying to parse the JSON from a webservice with a GSON Parser, but I keep getting this error:

09-20 15:58:50.835: E/ServiceGateWay(216): Invalid Json String : com.google.gson.JsonSyntaxException: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Expected a string but was BEGIN_ARRAY

The frustrating thing is I don't know how to find at what line it's blowing up. Every time I debug in Eclipse and I walk through the code and I try to step into the part where the code assigns the response to the response class, but Eclipse throws this error:

["SOURCE NOT FOUND"

The JAR file gson-2.0.jar has no source attachment.]

I have checked my JSON response (it's formatting is valid). Does anyone know how I can figure out the exact line where the error occurs?

Thanks,

Mike

[Inderjeet Singh]

You can improve your debugging by getting the Gson source jar from the maven repository. Here is a link to version 2.2.2: 

http://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=com/google/code/gson/gson/2.2.2/gson-2.2.2-sources.jar

I think most likely what is happening is that one of the field is of type String but the input is a Json array. So your JSON is valid, it is just different from what is expected.

HTH

Inder