odd number of elements in anonymous hash

I'm trying to understand this Perl code...

If there is one stream it works, if there are 2 or more streams it warns with odd number of elements in anonymous hash. It seems to return an array in that case. How do I add the array elements correctly to @streams? It appears to add correctly for the HASH case in the if clause. Is the else clause bunk?

 my $x = $viewedProjectDataObj->{streams};

    if (ref($x) eq 'HASH') {
        push(@streams, $x->{id});
    } elsif (ref($x) eq 'ARRAY') {

        print "$x\n";
        print "@$x\n";
        my @array = @$x;
        foreach my $obj (@array) {
            print "in $obj\n";
            print Dumper( $obj);
            push(@streams,  ($obj->{id}) );
        }
    }

    print "streamcount " . @streams % 2;
    print Dumper(@streams);


    my $stream_defect_filter_spec = {
        'streamIdList' => @streams,
        'includeDefectInstances' => 'true',
        'includeHistory' => 'true',
    };

    my @streamDefects = $WS->get_stream_defects($defectProxy, \@cids,             $stream_defect_filter_spec);
    print Dumper(@streamDefects);

I'm adding the next lines...

if ($defectSummary->{owner} eq "Various") {
    foreach (@streamDefects) {
        if (exists($_->{owner})) {
            $defectSummary->{owner} = $_->{owner};
            last;
        }
    }
}

my $diref = $streamDefects[0]->{defectInstances};
if ($diref) {
    my $defectInstance;
    if (ref($diref) eq 'HASH') {
        $defectInstance = $diref;
    } elsif (ref($diref) eq 'ARRAY') {
        $defectInstance = @{$diref}[0];
    } else {
        die "Unable to handle $diref (".ref($diref).")";
    }

It now errors with

Web API returned error code S:Server: calling getStreamDefects: No stream found for name null. $VAR1 = -1; me Can't use string ("-1") as a HASH ref while "strict refs" in use at xyz-handler.pl line 317.

some Dumper output

$VAR1 = {
      'streamIdList' => [
                          {
                            'name' => 'asdfasdfadsfasdfa'
                          },
                          {
                            'name' => 'cpp-62bad47d63cfb25e76b29a4801c61d8d'

                          }
                        ],
      'includeDefectInstances' => 'true',
      'includeHistory' => 'true'
    };