How to parse JSON which has escaped quotes with GSON

Question

I have following JSON [{\"X\":24.0124010872935,\"Y\":49.7740722529036,\"Code\":\"0320\",\"Name\": .....]

I try to parse it as

Gson gson = new Gson();
gson.fromJson(response.body(), RouteModel[].class)

And got Exception

Caused by: com.google.gson.stream.MalformedJsonException: Expected name at line 1 column 3 path $[0].

EDIT So far the best solution was to add compile 'org.apache.commons:commons-lang3:3.5' dependency and use gson.fromJson(StringEscapeUtils.unescapeJson(response.body()), RouteModel[].class)

Or just simply use replace("\\\"","\"")

Answer 1

Using disableHtmlEscaping should solve the problem without ugly workarounds. Also I used prettyPrinting to have a nicer output....

Gson gson = new GsonBuilder().setPrettyPrinting().disableHtmlEscaping().create();
gson.from(response.body(), RouteModel[].class)