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Why does that throw an exception? (thread)

```Json.decodeFromString&lt;String&gt;(
        """
    [
    
    ]
        """.trimIndent()
)```

```Exception in thread "main" kotlinx.serialization.json.internal.JsonDecodingException: Unexpected JSON token at offset 0: Expected beginning of the string, but got [
JSON input: [
]```

I used HttpResponse#body&lt;String&gt; and got the same error thats why I tried that

Well, you want `String` but that's not a string, hence the exception.

Are you just trying to get the response as text? Or are you expecting a JSON string?

but I could just decode it as JsonElement right?