String and Object response handling in same call Retrofit

Question

I am using retrofit 2.3.0 for network in Android app. I get response of say Person object I deserialize it using GsonConverter. But sometime server sends normal String rather than json object then I get JsonSyntaxException because deserialzer expects json object rather than String. String comes only when server times out so rather than getting exception I want to show "time out".

How to handle these situations when server returns plain string rather than Object with Retrofit?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 25 '18 at 12:34

Use a generic Object in response and after you get the response, check if that matches either String or JSON. This method should work well i suppose.

Check out these answer for more details :

https://stackoverflow.com/a/40131471/9809880

https://stackoverflow.com/a/35634754/9809880

https://stackoverflow.com/a/37663405/9809880

String and Object response handling in same call Retrofit

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