BEGIN_OBJECT expected, but met STRING Scopes: INSIDE_OBJECT>NAME>INSIDE_OBJECT>INSIDE_ARRAY>INSIDE_OBJECT about gson-xml HOT 6 CLOSED

In the first case your xml is mapped to stream of json tokens representing the following structure:

//...
element : {
  tag : "second",
  thumbnail_hq : {
    hundred_fifty_square : "...",
    // ...
  }
}

which can be correctly mapped yo your objects model.

In the second case JSON created from XML stream is the following:

// ...
element : {
  tag : "second",
  thumbnail_hq : ""
}

And you get the error.

Again this is caused by the fact that parser does not know anything about your target objects model. It just converts stream of XML tokens to JSON tokens.
The easiest solution might be to completely exclude thumbnail_hq tag from incoming XML structure when it's empty. It'll also reduce amount of data you process and traffic.
If it's not possible, you might use a custom type adapter for Thumb.

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Ok. Thanks for your answer.

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Hello. Can we get a next variant?

// ...
element : {
  tag : "second",
  thumbnail_hq : null
}

Than as "thumbnail_hq" will be null and we will not get error.

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Yeah, it seems to be ok.

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Ok. Do you have any idea how to modify the gson-xml library to get null value for an empty tag (<thumbnail_hq/>)? Maybe we can use isEmptyElementTag () for XmlPullParser?

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today i have the same error
my xml node:
<FAX xsi:nil = "true"/>

does someone have ideas how to parse this nodes?

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