When receiving a payload as JsonObject in a HttpClient using kotlinx-serialization, is there a way t...

# ktor

[martmists]

When receiving a payload as JsonObject in a HttpClient using kotlinx-serialization, is there a way to make it generate nulls instead of JsonNulls for fields that are present but have a null value? I tried setting explicitNulls to false but that didn't seem to work

[Aleksei Tirman [JB]]

It must not be possible because of the type safety.

[martmists]

so obj["missingKey"] can be null just fine but obj["keyWithNullValue"] can not be null because somehow that conflicts with type safety?

[Aleksei Tirman [JB]]

Maybe I am wrong, so you'd better ask this question in the #serialization channel.