Maybe a dumb question. But im working on a library...

# squarelibraries

[Colton Idle]

Maybe a dumb question. But im working on a library (regretfully 😂) 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?

[mbonnin]

There are okio helpers for kotlinx.serialization

[mbonnin]

Use them with response.body

[mbonnin]

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

[jw]

Only for JSON

[jw]

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.

[jw]

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

[Colton Idle]

oh yeahhhh. glad I asked. Thank you!

[Colton Idle]

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