Retrofit with simple json response containing only an integer or a string

Question

The rest API that I'm calling just returns an integer: 12.

As far as I know that is a valid json although I would have been happier if I could change the response on the server side to something more canonical. Unfortunately that is not an option for me.

Is there a way to use Retrofit to handle that response too?

EDIT

See: this question and the spec

So it seems the new spec allows to use simple string or integer as a json Text

Right. That's exactly what I said in my comment: "It's a valid JSON fragment. It is not a valid JSON document." — T.J. Crowder, Jun 29 '15 at 15:37
what about the part "JSON has been specified more generally in ECMA-404,". Do you mean that ECMA-404 is not used for the json in rest APIs? — kingston, Jun 29 '15 at 15:41
Looks like they've finally updated the actual definition of JSON to get rid of that confusion: [From the more recent RFC](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7159#section-2): *"A JSON text is a serialized value. Note that certain previous specifications of JSON constrained a JSON text to be an object or an array."* So they did away with that distinction, which is great. A **lot** of tools will be using the old definition, though. — T.J. Crowder, Jun 29 '15 at 15:42
I **do** wish Crockford would pick one definitive place and stick with it. ECMA or (better) IETF, but not *both*. Or if he insists on both, keep them *both* up to date. But then, crockford and I see things differently in several ways... :-) — T.J. Crowder, Jun 29 '15 at 15:43

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 01 '15 at 14:29

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I found the way to do it: just use Integer as a template parameter for the RestCallback:

new RestCallback<Integer>() {...}

answered Jul 01 '15 at 14:29

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