Jackson deserialization - with contained ArrayList<T>
{"error":
      null,
 "object":
      "[{"Id":16,"Class":"ReportType","ClassID":"4","ListItemParent_ID":4,"Item":"Pothole","Description":"Pothole","Sequence":1,"LastEditDate":null,"LastEditor":null,"ItemStatus":"Active","ItemColor":"#00AF64"}
  ]"
}

public class ListResponse {

public String error;
    public ArrayList<ListItem> object;

public ListResponse() {}
}

public class ListItem {
    @JsonProperty("Id")
    public int id;
    @JsonProperty("Class")
    public String classType;
    @JsonProperty("ClassID")
    public String classId;
    @JsonProperty("ListItemParent_ID")
    public int parentId;
    @JsonProperty("Item")
    public String item;
    @JsonProperty("Description")
    public String description;

@JsonAnySetter
public void handleUnknown(String key, Object value) {}

public ListItem() {}
}

public class CitizenPlusService {
    private Client client = null;
    private WebResource service = null;

public CitizenPlusService() {
    initializeService("http://localhost:59105/PlusService/");
}

private void initializeService(String baseURI) {
    // Use the default client configuration.
    ClientConfig clientConfig = new DefaultClientConfig();
    clientConfig.getClasses().add(JacksonJsonProvider.class);

    client = Client.create(clientConfig);

    // Add a logging filter to track communication between server and client.
    client.addFilter(new LoggingFilter());
    // Add the base URI
    service = client.resource(UriBuilder.fromUri(baseURI).build());
}

public ListResponse getListItems(String id) throws Exception
{
    ListResponse response = service.path("GetListItems").path(id).accept(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_TYPE, MediaType.APPLICATION_XML_TYPE).get(ListResponse.class);
    return response;
}

org.codehaus.jackson.map.JsonMappingException: Can not deserialize instance of java.util.ArrayList out of VALUE_STRING token
at [Source: java.io.StringReader@49497eb8; line: 1, column: 14] (through reference chain: citizenplus.types.ListResponse["object"])