Ok, I'm wondering this could be quite simple and stupid but after a while fighting with the situation I have no idea what is happening.
I'm using Gson to handle a few JSON elements. Somewhere in my code I get one of the JsonElements of a JsonObject as a String and I compare it against another String. As far as I can see both of them are equals but when comparing I always get false. Here is the snippet.
JsonArray arr;
JsonObject jsonobj;
JsonElement model_elem;
String STUPID_STRING = "bla bla bla";
// Previously we initializes and fill arr, it doesn't matter how... I hope
jsonobj = arr.get(0).getAsJsonObject();
model_elem = jsonobj.get("coolname");
if (model_elem.toString().equals(STUPID_STRING)) {
...
It never goes inside the if statement.
arr has element at index 0, jsonobj has a field with name "coolname" and if I println model_elem i get "bla bla bla" (the same as STUPID_STRING). I have tried equals() and also compareTo() == 0.
I cannot figure out what is happening here, does anyone knows? :-s.
Thanks in advance.