From 7785fb7f9017e434a116a679e4c2583bd18350fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Elifarley C <elifarley@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 03:14:56 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] Possible fix for #168 - Always create new instance of col

---
 src/main/java/com/jsoniter/ReflectionCollectionDecoder.java | 6 +-----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/main/java/com/jsoniter/ReflectionCollectionDecoder.java b/src/main/java/com/jsoniter/ReflectionCollectionDecoder.java
index b82dfe91..2dcb6e9b 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/jsoniter/ReflectionCollectionDecoder.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/jsoniter/ReflectionCollectionDecoder.java
@@ -38,11 +38,7 @@ private Object decode_(JsonIterator iter) throws Exception {
         if (iter.readNull()) {
             return null;
         }
-        if (col == null) {
-            col = (Collection) this.ctor.newInstance();
-        } else {
-            col.clear();
-        }
+        col = (Collection) this.ctor.newInstance();
         while (iter.readArray()) {
             col.add(compTypeDecoder.decode(iter));
         }