From bfa8837e610c774839f7f7b719e8c30e9af77177 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robin Bygrave <robin.bygrave@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 16:38:22 +1300
Subject: [PATCH] #451 - avaje-ebeanorm-jackson -
 com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParseException: Expecting start_array event
 but got START_OBJECT at

---
 .../ebeaninternal/server/text/json/DJsonContext.java     | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/main/java/com/avaje/ebeaninternal/server/text/json/DJsonContext.java b/src/main/java/com/avaje/ebeaninternal/server/text/json/DJsonContext.java
index 59b614e51..696419fb8 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/avaje/ebeaninternal/server/text/json/DJsonContext.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/avaje/ebeaninternal/server/text/json/DJsonContext.java
@@ -125,9 +125,12 @@ public class DJsonContext implements JsonContext {
 
       List<T> list = new ArrayList<T>();
 
-      JsonToken event = src.nextToken();
-      if (event != JsonToken.START_ARRAY) {
-        throw new JsonParseException("Expecting start_array event but got " + event, src.getCurrentLocation());
+      JsonToken currentToken = src.getCurrentToken();
+      if (currentToken != JsonToken.START_ARRAY) {
+        JsonToken event = src.nextToken();
+        if (event != JsonToken.START_ARRAY) {
+          throw new JsonParseException("Expecting start_array event but got " + event, src.getCurrentLocation());
+        }
       }
 
       do {