Venues Search produces JSONException

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. foursquareApi.setVersion("20140501");
1. foursquareApi.venuesSearch(searchParams);

   where searhParams is an HashMap<String,String> defined as follows: 
   searchParams.put("intent", "browse");
   searchParams.put("ne", ne); 
   searchParams.put("sw", sw);

   ne = pair of "lat,lng" coordinates
   sw = pair of "lat,lng" coordinates

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Expected output: a Result<VenuesSearchResult> object
I receive instead an exception

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
I'm using foursquare-api-1.0.2.jar on Windows 7 x64

Please provide any additional information below.
When I call the method venuesSearch() I get the exception 
fi.foyt.foursquare.api.FoursquareApiException: org.json.JSONException: 
JSONObject["specials"] is not a JSONArray.
I have this exception only when I use setVersion("APIversion") method with any 
APIversion value after year 2012. Since now Foursquare requires mandatory to 
upgrade the api version, I need to do this. 

Here the entire exception stack trace:
    at fi.foyt.foursquare.api.JSONFieldParser.parseEntity(JSONFieldParser.java:140)
    at fi.foyt.foursquare.api.JSONFieldParser.parseEntities(JSONFieldParser.java:57)
    at fi.foyt.foursquare.api.FoursquareApi.handleVenueSearchResult(FoursquareApi.java:963)
    at fi.foyt.foursquare.api.FoursquareApi.venuesSearch(FoursquareApi.java:1011)
    at it.unito.geosummly.FoursquareSearchVenues.searchVenues(MyClass.java:55)

where MyClass.java is the class which call the method.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by gia.falc...@gmail.com on 3 May 2014 at 3:16

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I download the code and I see that CompleteVenue has an array of 
CompleteSpecial but the json that foursquare response is has "count" and 
"items[]". So.. I'll see if there is a config issue (version) or just a bug.

JP

Original comment by juanpablo.pizarro@gmail.com on 6 Jul 2014 at 9:14

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Ok, reading foursquare documentation I see that specials could be an array or 
an entity with count and the array, depends on the version. But, foursquare 
deprecate all apis before 20120609 and the single array is given by versions 
before 20120121.

https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/responses/venue --> see the specials in 
the table.

So, we need the entities updated. I'll work on this to fix my issues.

Original comment by juanpablo.pizarro@gmail.com on 6 Jul 2014 at 9:49

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did anyone find a solution for this problem?

Original comment by dany.k.h...@gmail.com on 7 Jul 2014 at 7:12

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Actually I discovered that this library is deprecated, as specified here: 
https://developer.foursquare.com/resources/libraries

The new API version is available at: 
https://github.com/wallabyfinancial/foursquare-api-java

For now, I don't think there is an online maven repository, but I did 
everything on my own, by downloading the API and by installing it locally on my 
maven project.

Original comment by gia.falc...@gmail.com on 7 Jul 2014 at 2:56