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I'm writing a Ktor plugin capable of sending an HTTP response when catching a specific exception. The response body is a serializable class.

*Should I serialize the class within the plugin code, using kotlinx.serialization?*
Which means I would write something like `call.respond(Json.encodeToString(bodyClass))`.
However the user has no way to choose another format like XML.

*Or should I encourage my users to configure the <https://start.ktor.io/p/content-negotiation|Content Negotiation> plugin to serialize the class?*
Then I would write something like `call.respond(bodyClass)` and serialization will be automatically handled.
However, this code will fail if the Content Negociation plugin isn't configured.

I would encourage users to install the `ContentNegotiation` plugin to evade implementing serialization configuration.