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Maybe a dumb question. But im working on a library (regretfully :joy:)  and we need to make network calls. would love to use okhttp + kotlinx.serialization, but we don't want to go all in and pull in retrofit. Is there an "easy" way to deserialization with okhttp without brining in retrofit?

There are okio helpers for kotlinx.serialization

<https://kotlinlang.org/api/kotlinx.serialization/kotlinx-serialization-json-okio/kotlinx.serialization.json.okio/>

Otherwise you have to read the data into a `ByteArray` or `String` and then decode from that using whatever `BinaryFormat` or `StringFormat` you are using.

<https://github.com/square/retrofit/blob/519899b79d47f5b98da7e9e3258b1ed68f1d6c03/retrofit-converters/kotlinx-serialization/src/main/java/retrofit2/converter/kotlinx/serialization/Serializer.kt#L25-L28>
<https://github.com/square/retrofit/blob/519899b79d47f5b98da7e9e3258b1ed68f1d6c03/retrofit-converters/kotlinx-serialization/src/main/java/retrofit2/converter/kotlinx/serialization/Serializer.kt#L37-L40>