a bunch of guides (such as <the official one>) suggest using `Json.decodeFromString(String)`, but I'...

# getting-started

[y]

a bunch of guides (such as 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<T>, String). what gives?

[Youssef Shoaib [MOD]]

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

[Sam]

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.

[Youssef Shoaib [MOD]]

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

[y]

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

[y]

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

[y]

I guess it's somehow out of date

[Vampire]

@Youssef Shoaib [MOD] the one you link to is on instances of StringFormat

[Vampire]

Ah, ok, JsonFormat is an implementation of StringFormat 🤦‍♂️

[y]

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

[y]

(thanks everyone for the responses)