code: public List<CommentTreeElement> parse(String jsonText) throws RedditParseException {
          
          try {
              
              // Parse JSON response
              Object response = JSON_PARSER.parse(jsonText);
              
              // Validate main
              this.validate(response);
              
              // Move to the main object
              JSONObject main = (JSONObject) ((JSONObject) response).get("json");
              
              // List of comment and more mixed elements
              List<CommentTreeElement> elements = new LinkedList<CommentTreeElement>();
              
              // If the main has data (it can happen that it does not, when no comments identifiers were passed along)
              if (main.get("data") != null) {
              
                  // Parse to a list of things
                  List<Thing> things = this.parseGeneric(main.toJSONString(), "things");
              
                  // Iterate over things
                  for (Thing t : things) {
                      
                      if (t instanceof Comment) {
                          elements.add((Comment) t);
                      } else if (t instanceof More) {
                          elements.add((More) t);
                      } else {
                          LOGGER.warn("Encountered an unexpected reddit thing (" + t.getKind().value() + "), skipping it.");
                      }
                      
                  }
              
              }
              
              // Return resulting element list
              return elements;
          
          } catch (ParseException pe) {
              throw new RedditParseException(pe);
          }
          
      }
docs: Parse JSON received from reddit into a list of new additional comment tree elements.
  This parser expects the JSON to be of a listing of comments and more's.<br>
  <br>
  <i>Note: this parsing can only be performed on listings of comments and more's, not on
  a comment tree of a submission.</i>
  
  @param jsonText JSON Text
  @return Parsed list of comments
  
  @throws ParseException
  @throws RedditRequestException