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Hello! Facing an issue with the kotlinx json serialization library. Trying to parse a string to `Map<String, JsonElement?>`.
All strings in values of the map will have quotes at the start and at the end. E.g instead of just `consumable` a string will look like `"consumable"` How to avoid this?

Tried to use org.json.JSONObject. And in this case the result looks correctly.

The string i am trying to parse: `"{\"af_content_id\":\"currency.credits.1\",\"af_content_type\":\"consumable\",\"af_revenue\":1.59,\"af_currency\":\"RUB\"}"`

I generate it from javascript code. The `JSON.stringify` function.

that string looks like valid JSON, aside from the escaped quotes. How do you generate that string from JSON stringify?

if you could generate it without the escaped quotes then it should Just Work

&gt; How do you generate that string from JSON stringify?
The source object: `{af_content_id: "currency.credits.1", af_content_type: "consumable", af_revenue: 1.59, af_currency: "RUB"}`

Just a valid js object.

Looks like i have to parse it to `Map<String, String?>`. Maybe `JsonElement` is the issue

just decode a `JsonObject`, which is a subtype of `Map&lt;String, JsonElement&gt;`

The `JsonObject` did not help. Still get the same result :confused:

Both of these work just fine for me:
```val json: JsonElement = Json.parseToJsonElement(string)
val contentType1 = json.jsonObject["af_content_type"]!!.jsonPrimitive.content

val map: Map&lt;String, JsonElement&gt; = Json.decodeFromString(string)
val contentType2 = map["af_content_type"]!!.jsonPrimitive.content```

Just make sure you're using `content` and not `toString()`, because the toString method inserts those quotes to denote that it's a string primitive and not a number primitive (ie: if the content was `"42"`, the quotes disambiguate the string `"42"` from the number `42`

```public override fun toString(): String =
    if (isString) buildString { printQuoted(content) }
    else content```

Yes man you are right. The issue was the `toString` function of `JsonElement`. The AppsFlyer lib requires a Map to log events <https://dev.appsflyer.com/hc/docs/android-sdk-reference-appsflyerlib#logevent>
And looks like the lib uses the `toString` function somewhere inside.
Thanks for your help.