I have got a question on Kotlin serialization. I ...

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[Jack Darlington]

I have got a question on Kotlin serialization.

I want to use sealed classes to deserialize. Is there a way to change the type key from "type" to something else on the sealed class.

[Paul Griffith]

#C7A1U5PTM
But yes, you can change the type discriminator - but only at the "global" level for an entire serializer instance, e.g:

Json {
    classDiscriminator = "\$type"
}

[Jack Darlington]

I figured it out, had to use JsonTransformingSerializer to manually tweak the json