Is it possible to deserialize only a fragment of the Json response?. For example, if I have a Json response like this:

{
  "responseHeader": {
    "a": 0,
    "b": 407,
    "c": {
         ....
    }
  },
  "response": {
    "numFound": 2,
    "start": 0,
    "docs": [
      {
        "foo": "foo",
        "bar": "bar"
      },
      {
        "foo": "foo",
        "bar": "bar"
      }
    ]
  },
  "unimportant": {
    "unimportant": []
  }
}

I'm interested only in the

response

part, so, Instead of deserializing the entire response, I want to just deserialize this part. is this possible with kotlinx.serialization? Of course I can deserialize the whole response & get rid of the irrelevant parts on the client side, but this would be a waste of time. So, it would be nice if there is a built-in way to do this.

you can define a model that only contains

response

, and as long as you use

Json { ignoreUnknownKeys = true }

having a partial model is fine

@ephemient this is exactly what I'm doing currently (

partial model + ignoreUnknownKeys

) but I'm getting

JsonDecodingException

, this is why I asked the question in the first place, because I thought there is a hidden feature somewhere for that. but yeah, I guess you're right about JSON parser need to scan through

responseHeader

and brackets first