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a bunch of guides (such as <https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.serialization/blob/master/docs/basic-serialization.md#json-decoding|the official one>) suggest using `Json.decodeFromString(String)`, but I'm not seeing this function on my end. the only one I see is `decodeFromString(DeserializationStrategy&lt;T&gt;, String)`. what gives?

I think there's a `reified` version that only works by specifying a type `Json.decodeFromString&lt;MySerializeableType&gt;(string)` or if it can be inferred from context

It’s an extension function — do you need to add an import? IDEA isn’t very good at suggesting/adding imports when an extension function shares the same name as a member function, I’ve found.

<https://kotlinlang.org/api/kotlinx.serialization/kotlinx-serialization-core/kotlinx.serialization/decode-from-string.html>
Docs for the function

IDEA insists on giving me `kotlinx.serialization.json.Json.Default.decodeFromString` instead of `kotlinx.serialization.decodeFromString` no matter what I do.

I'm on 1.5.0, which seems recent enough.
`kotlinx.serialization.json.decodeFromString` does not seem to exist on my copy...?

<@U019AG342E5> the one you link to is on instances of `StringFormat`

Ah, ok, `JsonFormat` is an implementation of `StringFormat` :man-facepalming:

I got it working. I'm not sure what the heck I did differently, but it's resolving now.