From 24a8d36dd84565559ad5c5a55e783956dfd5cd61 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Elifarley C <elifarley@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 20:48:31 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] Revert "Possible fix for #168 - Always create new instance of
 col"

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

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