Get list of JSON objects with Spring RestTemplate

First define an object to hold the entity coming back in the array.. e.g.

@JsonIgnoreProperties(ignoreUnknown = true)public class Rate {    private String name;    private String code;    private Double rate;    // add getters and setters}

Then you can consume the service and get a strongly typed list via:

ResponseEntity<List<Rate>> rateResponse =        restTemplate.exchange("https://bitpay.com/api/rates",                    HttpMethod.GET, null, new ParameterizedTypeReference<List<Rate>>() {            });List<Rate> rates = rateResponse.getBody();

The other solutions above will also work, but I like getting a strongly typed list back instead of an Object[].

Maybe this way...

ResponseEntity<Object[]> responseEntity = restTemplate.getForEntity(urlGETList, Object[].class);Object[] objects = responseEntity.getBody();MediaType contentType = responseEntity.getHeaders().getContentType();HttpStatus statusCode = responseEntity.getStatusCode();

Controller code for the RequestMapping

@RequestMapping(value="/Object/getList/", method=RequestMethod.GET)public @ResponseBody List<Object> findAllObjects() {    List<Object> objects = new ArrayList<Object>();    return objects;}

ResponseEntity is an extension of HttpEntity that adds a HttpStatus status code. Used in RestTemplate as well @Controller methods.In RestTemplate this class is returned by getForEntity() and exchange().

For me this worked

Object[] forNow = template.getForObject("URL", Object[].class);    searchList= Arrays.asList(forNow);

Where Object is the class you want