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Accessing JSON data when response contains both JSON data and text

Initially the content from the server was JSON data.And I was able to access the data perfectly.

{ "status":"ok", "artifact":"weblayer-war", "version":"0.0.41-test-data", "buildtime":"test-data" }

Now the response from the server has been changed to json data + text data.

{ "status":"ok", "artifact":"weblayer-war", "version":"0.0.41-test-data", "buildtime":"test-data" }

Properties for service:
=======================
ServiceEndpoint: https://somedomain:1200/web/Servlet/SOAP/Services
Certificates: false
DocumentName: note.pdf

So whether changing the content-type to application-text and using split method is the only way we can solve this or Is there any better approach?

Solution

  • As mentioned in the comments, mixing JSON and pure text data is wrong (as it defeats the advantage of using standardized data format) and should be avoided. Maybe that is some kind of debug log that was accidentally included in the production code?

    If not, you should read just the first line of response and parse it as JSON data, ignoring the rest, hoping for no more changes in response structure ;)