API Data coming in encoded format, how to decode it in java

Question

I'm monitoring network data for my mobile application and while capturing the data I got the response in following format

    "postData": {
            "mimeType": "application/json; charset=utf-8",
            "text": "\u001f�\b\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000�V[S�8\
u0014�+����l�qx�\t-�l!M)-�^�#�'�6��Jr2)��#��\u0002<���`�M
��������<3����\u001e��l�bɌ�$+�\u0001�yP�\\@�xb�L�RI^�@iY3�
53\\�\u0018��)�j3�0[D\u0001+���/�����渒�+��������*�N\u0016J�\rz50U
    }

Headers Information:

"headers": [
        {
          "name": "Content-Encoding",
          "value": "gzip"
        },
        {
          "name": "Content-Type",
          "value": "application/json; charset=utf-8"
        },
        {
          "name": "Transfer-Encoding",
          "value": "chunked"
        },
        {
          "name": "Connection",
          "value": "Keep-Alive"
        },
        {
          "name": "Accept-Encoding",
          "value": "gzip"
        }
      ],

I'm not able to understand how to get the actual data out of it. Search internet didn't find any solution for this.

that looks fairly broken, it's maybe not actual text but binary data. Whatever you use to decode the json (jackson/gson/..) should be able to decode that too (and do so automatically) since `\u001f` is the json way of escaping unicode (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON#Data_portability_issues). — zapl, May 19 '18 at 16:53
@zapi Tried following but its giving same thing, not able to decode it. String st="\\u001f�\\b\\u0000\\u0000\\u0000\\u0000\\u0000\\u0000\\u0000�V�r�6\\u0010"; Gson gson=new Gson(); String info=gson.toJson(st); — Maninder Jeet Singh, May 19 '18 at 19:38

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 14 '20 at 14:05

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It might just be the compression used. Try taking "Accept-Encoding" out of the request header and it may then just return text because at the moment it could be using Gzip or something to compress the data

answered Jan 14 '20 at 14:05

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