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groovy - list parsing fails if it contains one element

Hello, I often use jsonslurper to parse lists returned by test steps, but I have a case where it fails. I have a testStep that is a call to an API, it returns a list of elements such as ["fim:devic...
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The response does not seem to be a valid json or json array. Isn't it?

["fim:device:LIGHT:1810","fim:device:LIGHT:1810", etc.]

 

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    it's just for the example, you can see it better in the code example

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      Are you referring to
      ["fim:device:LIGHT:1810","fim:device:LIGHT:1811"] => this is not json or json array.
      Can you please provide the sample response ?
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        The original response is a json array from which I extract a parameter "result" that contains an array of strings.

        Indeed "result" is not a json array ... I should then use another way to extract data, such as tokenize, I guess ?

        **bleep**. jSonSlurper makes it, usually ...