How to get list<String> as response from jersey2 client

You can get your service response as Response class object and, then parse this object using readEntity(...) method.

Here is a quick code snippet:

List<String> list = client                      .target(url)                      .request(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON)                      .get(Response.class)                      .readEntity(new GenericType<List<String>>() {});/* Do something with the list object */

String listString= serviceResponse.readEntity(String.class);Gson gson=new Gson();Type type = new TypeToken<List<String>>(){}.getType();List<String> list = gson.fromJson(listString, type);

Get response string and then convert to List by using gson library

First add jackson dependency

<dependency>    <groupId>org.glassfish.jersey.media</groupId>    <artifactId>jersey-media-json-jackson</artifactId>    <version>2.27</version></dependency>

Then create Client Config

ClientConfig config = new ClientConfig();config.register( JacksonFeature.class );

Finally create the client through the ClientConfig

List<String> list = ClientBuilder.newClient( config )               .target( uri )               .request()               .get( Response.class )               .readEntity( List.class );