diff --git a/src/main/java/io/anserini/collection/JsonCollection.java b/src/main/java/io/anserini/collection/JsonCollection.java
index 3c4776fb3e..7104b6607f 100644
--- a/src/main/java/io/anserini/collection/JsonCollection.java
+++ b/src/main/java/io/anserini/collection/JsonCollection.java
@@ -112,13 +112,6 @@ public void readNext() throws NoSuchElementException {
         } else {
           atEOF = true; // there is no more JSON object in the bufferedReader
         }
-      } else if (node.isArray()) {
-        if (iter != null && iter.hasNext()) {
-          JsonNode json = iter.next();
-          bufferedRecord = (T) createNewDocument(node);
-        } else {
-          throw new NoSuchElementException("Reached end of JsonNode iterator");
-        }
       } else {
         LOG.error("Error: invalid JsonNode type");
         throw new NoSuchElementException("Invalid JsonNode type");
diff --git a/src/test/java/io/anserini/collection/JsonVectorCollectionDocumentArrayTest.java b/src/test/java/io/anserini/collection/JsonVectorCollectionDocumentArrayTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f626875b55
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/java/io/anserini/collection/JsonVectorCollectionDocumentArrayTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+/*
+ * Anserini: A Lucene toolkit for reproducible information retrieval research
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package io.anserini.collection;
+
+import org.junit.Before;
+
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+import java.nio.file.Paths;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+// A file in a JsonVectorCollection can either be:
+// (1) A single JSON object (i.e., a single document)
+// (2) An array of JSON objects
+// (3) JSON Lines (i.e., one JSON object per line)
+//
+// This is the test case for (2)
+public class JsonVectorCollectionDocumentArrayTest extends JsonVectorCollectionTest {
+
+  @Before
+  public void setUp() throws Exception {
+    super.setUp();
+
+    collectionPath = Paths.get("src/test/resources/sample_docs/json_vector/collection2");
+    collection = new JsonVectorCollection(collectionPath);
+
+    Path segment1 = Paths.get("src/test/resources/sample_docs/json_vector/collection2/segment1.json");
+
+    segmentPaths.add(segment1);
+    segmentDocCounts.put(segment1, 2);
+
+    totalSegments = 1;
+    totalDocs = 2;
+
+    expected.put("doc1", Map.of("id", "doc1",
+        "content", "f1 f2 f2 f3 f4 f4 f4 f4 f5 "));
+    expected.put("doc2", Map.of("id", "doc2",
+        "content", "f4 f4 f4 f5 f9 f9 f22 f22 f22 f22 f22 f22 f35 f35 f35 f35 f35 f35 f35 f35 "));
+  }
+}
diff --git a/src/test/java/io/anserini/collection/JsonVectorCollectionDocumentObjectTest.java b/src/test/java/io/anserini/collection/JsonVectorCollectionDocumentObjectTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ded9429cd9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/java/io/anserini/collection/JsonVectorCollectionDocumentObjectTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+/*
+ * Anserini: A Lucene toolkit for reproducible information retrieval research
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package io.anserini.collection;
+
+import org.junit.Before;
+
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+import java.nio.file.Paths;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+// A file in a JsonVectorCollection can either be:
+// (1) A single JSON object (i.e., a single document)
+// (2) An array of JSON objects
+// (3) JSON Lines (i.e., one JSON object per line)
+//
+// This is the test case for (1)
+public class JsonVectorCollectionDocumentObjectTest extends JsonVectorCollectionTest {
+  @Before
+  public void setUp() throws Exception {
+    super.setUp();
+
+    collectionPath = Paths.get("src/test/resources/sample_docs/json_vector/collection1");
+    collection = new JsonVectorCollection(collectionPath);
+
+    Path segment1 = Paths.get("src/test/resources/sample_docs/json_vector/collection1/doc1.json");
+    Path segment2 = Paths.get("src/test/resources/sample_docs/json_vector/collection1/doc2.json");
+
+    segmentPaths.add(segment1);
+    segmentDocCounts.put(segment1, 1);
+    segmentPaths.add(segment2);
+    segmentDocCounts.put(segment2, 1);
+
+    totalSegments = 2;
+    totalDocs = 2;
+
+    expected.put("doc1", Map.of("id", "doc1",
+        "content", "f1 f2 f2 f3 f4 f4 f4 f4 f5 "));
+    expected.put("doc2", Map.of("id", "doc2",
+        "content", "f4 f4 f4 f5 f9 f9 f22 f22 f22 f22 f22 f22 f35 f35 f35 f35 f35 f35 f35 f35 "));
+  }
+}
diff --git a/src/test/java/io/anserini/collection/JsonVectorCollectionLineObjectTest.java b/src/test/java/io/anserini/collection/JsonVectorCollectionLineObjectTest.java
index 592cf8f51c..d03ecab7c1 100644
--- a/src/test/java/io/anserini/collection/JsonVectorCollectionLineObjectTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/io/anserini/collection/JsonVectorCollectionLineObjectTest.java
@@ -22,14 +22,12 @@
 import java.nio.file.Paths;
 import java.util.Map;
 
-// A file in a JsonCollection can either be:
+// A file in a JsonVectorCollection can either be:
 // (1) A single JSON object (i.e., a single document)
 // (2) An array of JSON objects
 // (3) JSON Lines (i.e., one JSON object per line)
 //
 // This is the test case for (3)
-//
-// Note that we're testing the multifield capability here and only here, since the codepath is shared.
 public class JsonVectorCollectionLineObjectTest extends JsonVectorCollectionTest {
 
   @Before
@@ -52,11 +50,4 @@ public void setUp() throws Exception {
     expected.put("doc2", Map.of("id", "doc2",
         "content", "f4 f4 f4 f5 f9 f9 f22 f22 f22 f22 f22 f22 f35 f35 f35 f35 f35 f35 f35 f35 "));
   }
-
-  @Override
-  void checkDocument(SourceDocument doc, Map<String, String> expected) {
-    assertTrue(doc.indexable());
-    assertEquals(expected.get("id"), doc.id());
-    assertEquals(expected.get("content"), doc.contents());
-  }
 }
diff --git a/src/test/java/io/anserini/collection/JsonVectorCollectionTest.java b/src/test/java/io/anserini/collection/JsonVectorCollectionTest.java
index 51faedb684..57a0c7e3a5 100644
--- a/src/test/java/io/anserini/collection/JsonVectorCollectionTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/io/anserini/collection/JsonVectorCollectionTest.java
@@ -24,6 +24,10 @@ void checkDocument(SourceDocument doc, Map<String, String> expected) {
     assertTrue(doc.indexable());
     assertEquals(expected.get("id"), doc.id());
     assertEquals(expected.get("content"), doc.contents());
-    assertEquals(expected.get("raw"), doc.raw());
+
+    // Checking raw is optional
+    if (expected.get("raw") != null) {
+      assertEquals(expected.get("raw"), doc.raw());
+    }
   }
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/test/resources/sample_docs/json_vector/collection1/doc1.json b/src/test/resources/sample_docs/json_vector/collection1/doc1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c750976edc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/resources/sample_docs/json_vector/collection1/doc1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+{
+  "id": "doc1",
+  "contents": "this is the contents 1.",
+  "vector": {"f1": 1, "f2": 2, "f3": 1, "f4": 4, "f5": 1}
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/test/resources/sample_docs/json_vector/collection1/doc2.json b/src/test/resources/sample_docs/json_vector/collection1/doc2.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..41c3f5a7e8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/resources/sample_docs/json_vector/collection1/doc2.json
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+{
+  "id": "doc2",
+  "contents": "this is the contents 2.",
+  "vector": {"f4": 3, "f5": 1, "f9": 2, "f22": 6, "f35": 8}
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/test/resources/sample_docs/json_vector/collection2/segment1.json b/src/test/resources/sample_docs/json_vector/collection2/segment1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a02b97f964
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/resources/sample_docs/json_vector/collection2/segment1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+[
+  {
+    "id": "doc1",
+    "contents": "this is the contents 1.",
+    "vector": {"f1": 1, "f2": 2, "f3": 1, "f4": 4, "f5": 1}
+  },
+  {
+    "id": "doc2",
+    "contents": "this is the contents 2.",
+    "vector": {"f4": 3, "f5": 1, "f9": 2, "f22": 6, "f35": 8}
+  }
+]