im looking for the possibility to control when the Response will be parsed as json. I call an Endpoint where i actually cant modify the result, i get an ugly 'ok' from that dumb PHP Script. Problem is that the JSON Parser tries to parse this and fails:
D/Retrofit( 6334): <--- HTTP 200 https://somewhere.com/endpoint.php?idfv=android_id&UserInterfaceIdiom=hammerhead&systemVersion=1.0&status=Not+Set&batteryLevel=100%25&localizedModel=Nexus+5&systemName=Android+OS&bundleShortVersion=1&language=eng&batteryState=USB&bundeIdentifier=com.packagename&bundleVersion=1.0 (475ms)
D/Retrofit( 6334): : HTTP/1.1 200 OK
D/Retrofit( 6334): Connection: Keep-Alive
D/Retrofit( 6334): Content-Type: text/html
D/Retrofit( 6334): Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 14:49:20 GMT
D/Retrofit( 6334): Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100
D/Retrofit( 6334): OkHttp-Received-Millis: 1412693360928
D/Retrofit( 6334): OkHttp-Response-Source: NETWORK 200
D/Retrofit( 6334): OkHttp-Selected-Protocol: http/1.1
D/Retrofit( 6334): OkHttp-Sent-Millis: 1412693360859
D/Retrofit( 6334): Server: Apache
D/Retrofit( 6334): Vary: Accept-Encoding
D/Retrofit( 6334): X-Powered-By: PHP/5.4.4-14+deb7u14
D/Retrofit( 6334): OK
D/Retrofit( 6334): <--- END HTTP (2-byte body)
My RX Subscription gets calledthat the Parsing when wrong:
retrofit.RetrofitError: com.google.gson.JsonSyntaxException: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Expected BEGIN_OBJECT but was STRING at line 1 column 1
I cant null for example the JSON Parser/Converter, null results in an NullPointerException getting thrown by Retrofit.
Use Response as the return type (or Callback generic parameter) which won't trigger parsing the body using the specified Converter. This object gives you a representation of the HTTP response where you can query the status code, headers, and body directly, if you need to.