How do I parse a root JSON Array with restassured?

Question

I see that I can do the following with restassured. Given JSON:

{"locationId"=456,"name"="Home"}

I can get an object representing that json like this:

Location location = given().headers(headers).when().expect().statusCode(200).get(getUrl(urlQualifier)).as(Location.class);

How do I parse this JSON is I receive a root array of my Location objects in JSON. So, given this JSON:

[{"locationId"=1,name="Home"},{"locationId"=2,name="Work"}]

I want to parse out a List object. The following of course is a compile error, but it demonstrates what I am trying to do:

List<Location> list = given().headers(headers).when().expect().statusCode(200).get(getUrl(urlQualifier)).as((List<Location>).class);

{locationId=456,name="Home"} is not valid JSON. This is: {"locationId":456,"name":"Home"}. — Matt Ball
– Matt Ball, Commented May 23, 2013 at 1:20

spg · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-05 20:54:14Z

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Try deserializing it to a Java array:

Location[] list = given().headers(headers).when().expect().statusCode(200).get(getUrl(urlQualifier)).as(Location[].class);

answered Nov 5, 2013 at 20:54

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