android - Retrofit - java.lang.IllegalStateException: Expected BEGIN_ARRAY but was BEGIN_OBJECT -

i trying parse own json, getting jsonsyntaxexception, here how json looks:

{     "type":"success",     "value":[         {             "id":1,             "title":"title - 1",          "name":{             "first":"first - 1",             "last":"last - 1"          },             "hobbies":[                 "writing code - 1",             "listening music - 1"             ]         },        .....     ] } 

log says:

e/app.retrofit_chucknorries.mainactivity$2: error: com.google.gson.jsonsyntaxexception:  java.lang.illegalstateexception: expected begin_array begin_object  @ line 7 column 12 path $.value[0].name 01-21 12:41:52.156 28936-28936/app.retrofit_chucknorries  w/system.err: retrofit.retrofiterror: com.google.gson.jsonsyntaxexception:  java.lang.illegalstateexception: expected begin_array begin_object  @ line 7 column 12 path $.value[0].name 

where doing mistake ? made few small modifications per requirement , classes else same in original code value.java:

import com.google.gson.annotations.expose; import com.google.gson.annotations.serializedname;  import java.util.arraylist; import java.util.list;  public class value {      @serializedname("id")     @expose     private integer id;      @serializedname("title")     @expose     private string title;      @serializedname("hobbies")     @expose     private list<string> hobbies = new arraylist<string>();      @serializedname("name")     @expose     private list<name> name = new arraylist<name>();      public integer getid() {         return id;     }      public void setid(integer id) {         this.id = id;     }      public list<name> getname() {         return name;     }      public void setname(list<name> name) {         this.name = name;     }      public list<string> gethobbies() {         return hobbies;     }      public void sethobbies(list<string> hobbies) {         this.hobbies = hobbies;     }      public string gettitle() {         return title;     }      public void settitle(string title) {         this.title = title;     } } 

in master.java class, name not array!

private list<name> name = new arraylist<name>(); 

change instead , try:

 private name name; 

actually seeing logs of exception can tell this.