code: public static List<EditLogFile> convertJsonToListManifest(String json)
        throws IOException {
      if (json == null || json.isEmpty()) {
        return new ArrayList<EditLogFile>();
      }
      // get the list of strings from the http response
      TypeReference<List<String>> type = new TypeReference<List<String>>() {
      };
      List<String> logFilesDesc = mapper.readValue(json, type);
  
      // we need to convert the list of strings into edit log files
      List<EditLogFile> logFiles = new ArrayList<EditLogFile>();
      for (String lf : logFilesDesc) {
        logFiles.add(new EditLogFile(lf));
      }
      return logFiles;
    }
docs: Get the map corresponding to the JSON string.