Try Catch in Java | Json still crashes

Question

                 try {
                          Log.e("getTrackerSettings | ", json);
                          trackerSettings = new Gson().fromJson(json, typeToken);
                      } catch ( IllegalStateException e) {
                          Log.e("getTrackerSettings inside catch | ", "");
                          e.printStackTrace();
                          trackerSettings = new TrackerSettings(1, "Hello", "73");
                      }

This code snippet will crash, and give the following:

E/getTrackerSettings inside try |: false
E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main
Process: com.sendiman.manager, PID: 13196
com.google.gson.JsonSyntaxException: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Expected BEGIN_OBJECT but was BOOLEAN at line 1 column 6 path $
    at com.google.gson.internal.bind.ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory$Adapter.read(ReflectiveTypeAdapterFactory.java:226)
    at com.google.gson.Gson.fromJson(Gson.java:932)
    at com.google.gson.Gson.fromJson(Gson.java:897)
    at com.google.gson.Gson.fromJson(Gson.java:846)

As you can see, this does no make sense. The entire function is inside a larger try catch( Exception e) as well.

Answer 1

luk2302 Answered in comments.

Catch (JsonSyntaxException e)did catch the crash.

Answer 2

It still fail because you are trying to catch IllegalStateException and not JsonSyntaxException

From javadoc documentation the signature of fromJson is:

public <T> T fromJson(String json, Class<T> classOfT) throws JsonSyntaxException

try {
     Log.e("getTrackerSettings | ", json);
     trackerSettings = new Gson().fromJson(json, typeToken);
} catch (JsonSyntaxException e) {
     Log.e("getTrackerSettings inside catch | ", "");
     e.printStackTrace();
     trackerSettings = new TrackerSettings(1, "Hello", "73");
}