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Is there a smarter way to deserialize the response body? I feel like I’m missing something :slightly_smiling_face:
```val response = gqlClient(request).data.toString()
return ObjectMapper().readValue&lt;RAArtistResponse&gt;(response).data.artist```

You can use a lens: <https://www.http4k.org/guide/reference/json/|https://www.http4k.org/guide/reference/json/>

Something like...

```val raArtist = Body.auto&lt;RAArtistResponse&gt;().toLens()
val artist = raArtist(client(request))```

Yes, the above is the way to go. You can also make the `.data.artist` part of the lens definition:
```Body.auto&lt;RAArtistResponse&gt;().map { it.data.artist }.toLens()```

Sorry, I think I should’ve been more clear: It’s a GraphQL response and I’m not sure how to alter my lens to make it work with it:

<@UNJBJA362> at the moment, there isn't really a better way - the data val of the response will be a Map. We don't currently generify on the output type when creating the handler - it's possible that we could do that. I'd maybe add an extension function to the response which contains your `Jackson.asA()`  and takes the type arguments of the type you want out.... that should work I think for now

Alright, thanks for the explanation! This is totally fine for me, I was just curious if I overlooked something there.
For now I just went with a normal http post, makes things way easier on my end for one single query.

Another option:
```fun Response.parseArtist() =
    objectMapper.readValue&lt;RAArtistResponse&gt;(data.toString()).data.artist```

I think Jackson will have parsed it as a map on the conversion to any, so you don't have to call toString. It might not be readValue, but I'm sure there is a call which works in that api