I am trying to use the REST API to have gemini responses GROUNDED WITH Google Search. I would also like the responses to be in JSON and respect a given JSON schema. Alas, this seems impossible I have tried gemini-1.5-pro specifiying google_search_retrieval as a tool and I get a 400 error with th…

[REST API] Grounding and JSON responses not compatible?

Abhijit_Herekar March 18, 2025, 9:42pm 3

I am also seeing the same issue.

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