Hi, I was trying to write a generic networking client using ktor.

override suspend fun <T : Any> getJsonFromRouter(router: APIRouter, success: Success<T>, failure: Failure) {
        try {
            val json = httpClient.get<String>(requestFromRouter(router))
            Json.decodeFromString(T.serializer(), json)
                .entries
                .also(success)
        } catch (ex: Exception) {
            Failure(error = ex)
        }
    }

I’m getting error on

T.serializer()

. Error = “Not enough information to infer type variable T”. On iOS we have Decodable which allows these kind of generic implementation. Was wondering if this is allowed on kotlin or this can’t be achieved and an actual type in place if generic T is required?

If you can make

getJsonFromRouter

inline, you can use

reified

on

T

. Otherwise I'd probably take the serializer as a parameter or take the

KType

(but you lose type safety with

KType

).

Thanks!! Using the serializer as a parameter as I cant use inline

reified

 on 

T

because its defined in an interface.