Hi everyone :wave: I have an api service which res...

# serialization

[Shivam Verma]

Hi everyone 👋 I have an api service which responds with a list of Item objects: suspend fun fetch(): List<Item> . I would like to register a custom serializer for this list of items. Something like:

val format = Json {
    serializersModule = SerializersModule {
        contextual(List<Item>::class, CustomListSerializer(Item.serializer()))
    }
}

I have also tried suspend fun fetch(): @Serializable(with = CustomListSerializer::class) List<Item> but this also does not work.

Any pointers would be helpful 🙏

[Adam S]

you could try using a typealias https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.serialization/blob/v1.5.1/docs/serializers.md#specifying-serializer-globally-using-typealias