SPRING : Can't deserialize an empty List object

Dear sirs,
Please help, how can I avoid this exception. It happens when my http response includes an empty List in the body.

org.springframework.web.client.RestClientException: Error while extracting response for type [java.util.List<?>] and content type [application/json;charset=UTF-8]; nested exception is org.springframework.http.converter.HttpMessageNotReadableException: JSON parse error: Cannot deserialize instance of `java.util.ArrayList` out of START_OBJECT token; nested exception is com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.exc.MismatchedInputException: Cannot deserialize instance of `java.util.ArrayList` out of START_OBJECT token at [Source: (PushbackInputStream); line: 1, column: 1] at org.springframework.web.client.HttpMessageConverterExtractor.extractData(HttpMessageConverterExtractor.java:115) at org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate$ResponseEntityResponseExtractor.extractData(RestTemplate.java:991) at org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate$ResponseEntityResponseExtractor.extractData(RestTemplate.java:974) at org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate.doExecute(RestTemplate.java:725) at org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate.execute(RestTemplate.java:698) at org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate.exchange(RestTemplate.java:649) at com.finger.services.AppRestTemplateService.doHandleListRequest(AppRestTemplateService.java:140) at

Please, assist