Skip root element while deserializing json

you can use GSON Library for this.

Below code will solve your problem.

public class ConvertJsonToObject {

    private static Gson gson = new GsonBuilder().create();

    public static final <T> T getFromJSON(String json, Class<T> clazz) {
        return gson.fromJson(json, clazz);
    }

    public static final <T> String toJSON(T clazz) {
        return gson.toJson(clazz);
    }
}

String json; // your jsonString
Map<String,Object> r = ConvertJsonToObject.getFromJSON(json,Map.class);
String innerJson = ConvertJsonToObject.toJson(r.get("root"));
MapWrapper _r = ConvertJsonToObject.getFromJSON(innerJson,MapWrapper.class);

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