How to parse newline delimited JSON with retrofit and moshi?

Question

I'm trying to parse newline delimited json using retrofit and moshi. This is my GET function:

suspend fun getDeviceValuesNew(@Path("application-id") applicationId: String, @Path("device-id") deviceId: String) 
: Response<List<ValueApiResponse>>

When I try to run it, I get this error:

 com.squareup.moshi.JsonDataException: Expected BEGIN_ARRAY but was BEGIN_OBJECT at path $

The HTTP call returns json like this:

{
    "result": {
        "end_device_ids": {
            "device_id": "esp32",
            "application_ids": {}
        },
        "received_at": "2021-03-31T11:33:42.757281753Z",
        "uplink_message": {
            "decoded_payload": {
                "brightness": 0
            },
            "settings": {
                "data_rate": {}
            },
            "received_at": "2021-03-31T11:33:42.547285090Z"
        }
    }
}
{
    "result": {
        "end_device_ids": {
            "device_id": "esp32",
            "application_ids": {}
        },
        "received_at": "2021-03-31T11:18:17.745921472Z",
        "uplink_message": {
            "decoded_payload": {
                "brightness": 0
            },
            "settings": {
                "data_rate": {}
            },
            "received_at": "2021-03-31T11:18:17.538276218Z"
        }
    }
}

EDIT #1: As you can see in my answer below, I managed to get a valid JSON response from the API, but still I'm struggling to parse these JSON objects to a list of Kotlin objects. How do I get Moshi to handle these newline delimited JSON objects as a list? I think the problem is that Moshi requires the objects to be wrapped inside an array to be recognised as a list. How do I do that?

This is my data class used for parsing:

@JsonClass(generateAdapter = true)
data class ValueDto(
    @Json(name = "result")
    val result: Result
) {
    @JsonClass(generateAdapter = true)
    data class Result(
        @Json(name = "end_device_ids")
        val endDeviceIds: EndDeviceIds,
        @Json(name = "received_at")
        val receivedAt: String,
        @Json(name = "uplink_message")
        val uplinkMessage: UplinkMessage
    ) {
        @JsonClass(generateAdapter = true)
        data class EndDeviceIds(
            @Json(name = "application_ids")
            val applicationIds: ApplicationIds,
            @Json(name = "device_id")
            val deviceId: String
        ) {
            @JsonClass(generateAdapter = true)
            class ApplicationIds(
            )
        }

        @JsonClass(generateAdapter = true)
        data class UplinkMessage(
            @Json(name = "decoded_payload")
            val decodedPayload: DecodedPayload,
            @Json(name = "received_at")
            val receivedAt: String,
            @Json(name = "settings")
            val settings: Settings
        ) {
            @JsonClass(generateAdapter = true)
            data class DecodedPayload(
                @Json(name = "brightness")
                val brightness: Int
            )
            @JsonClass(generateAdapter = true)
            data class Settings(
                @Json(name = "data_rate")
                val dataRate: DataRate
            ) {
                @JsonClass(generateAdapter = true)
                class DataRate(
                )
            }
        }
    }
}

Answer 1

@tyczj was right, this is not valid ndjson, as in ndjson newline characters only appear after each seperate json text. The solution was to send Accept: text/event-stream with the HTTP request and now I'm getting a valid ndjson response like this:

{"result":{"end_device_ids":{"device_id":"esp32-bh1750","application_ids":{}},"received_at":"2021-04-24T10:19:04.021238048Z","uplink_message":{"decoded_payload":{"brightness":0},"settings":{"data_rate":{}},"received_at":"2021-04-24T10:19:03.809173924Z"}}}

{"result":{"end_device_ids":{"device_id":"esp32-bh1750","application_ids":{}},"received_at":"2021-04-24T10:25:22.260712161Z","uplink_message":{"decoded_payload":{"brightness":119},"settings":{"data_rate":{}},"received_at":"2021-04-24T10:25:22.046086937Z"}}}

{"result":{"end_device_ids":{"device_id":"esp32-bh1750","application_ids":{}},"received_at":"2021-04-24T10:18:58.438947740Z","uplink_message":{"decoded_payload":{"brightness":0},"settings":{"data_rate":{}},"received_at":"2021-04-24T10:18:58.228671174Z"}}}

{"result":{"end_device_ids":{"device_id":"esp32-bh1750","application_ids":{}},"received_at":"2021-04-24T10:21:10.102303310Z","uplink_message":{"decoded_payload":{"brightness":106},"settings":{"data_rate":{}},"received_at":"2021-04-24T10:21:09.893217735Z"}}}

{"result":{"end_device_ids":{"device_id":"esp32-bh1750","application_ids":{}},"received_at":"2021-04-24T10:23:16.177064041Z","uplink_message":{"decoded_payload":{"brightness":108},"settings":{"data_rate":{}},"received_at":"2021-04-24T10:23:15.967959055Z"}}}

{"result":{"end_device_ids":{"device_id":"esp32-bh1750","application_ids":{}},"received_at":"2021-04-24T10:27:28.334312076Z","uplink_message":{"decoded_payload":{"brightness":117},"settings":{"data_rate":{}},"received_at":"2021-04-24T10:27:28.126104222Z"}}}

{"result":{"end_device_ids":{"device_id":"esp32-bh1750","application_ids":{}},"received_at":"2021-04-24T10:29:34.400253264Z","uplink_message":{"decoded_payload":{"brightness":99},"settings":{"data_rate":{}},"received_at":"2021-04-24T10:29:34.190980301Z"}}}

{"result":{"end_device_ids":{"device_id":"esp32-bh1750","application_ids":{}},"received_at":"2021-04-24T10:31:40.481766225Z","uplink_message":{"decoded_payload":{"brightness":118},"settings":{"data_rate":{}},"received_at":"2021-04-24T10:31:40.270452429Z"}}}

{"result":{"end_device_ids":{"device_id":"esp32-bh1750","application_ids":{}},"received_at":"2021-04-24T10:33:46.567235913Z","uplink_message":{"decoded_payload":{"brightness":114},"settings":{"data_rate":{}},"received_at":"2021-04-24T10:33:46.357373037Z"}}}

{"result":{"end_device_ids":{"device_id":"esp32-bh1750","application_ids":{}},"received_at":"2021-04-24T10:35:52.737386496Z","uplink_message":{"decoded_payload":{"brightness":121},"settings":{"data_rate":{}},"received_at":"2021-04-24T10:35:52.426583804Z"}}}

I've added the Header via retrofit annotation: @Headers("Accept: text/event-stream ")