how to parse a json string into data class?

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[calidion]

how to parse a json string into data class?

[Bhavin vala]

You can do it like this.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/48761937

[Joffrey]

Actually you shouldn't use Gson for multiple reasons. It's in maintenance mode, it's not adapted to Kotlin features (it's a java library), and it's reflection-based. If you want to use a library that works like Gson, you should instead use its successor Moshi.

But the idiomatic Kotlin library is kotlinx.serialization. You should use this in most cases:
https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.serialization

[calidion]

Thanks. I will update that part.

[Pim]

@Joffrey I have always wondered. Is there a specific reason that kotlinx.serialization does not support xml?

[Joffrey]

It does. It decouples the formats from the serialization déclaration. There are a few formats that are built-in, and indeed XML isn't built-in, but there is a third-party XML format for it which works great.