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Hello, I have a JSON where the keys are the ids.

```{
  "0": {"name": "John"},
  "1": {"name": "Jane"},
  "2": {"name": "Pete"},
  ...
}```
I'm super new to the Serialization library, and I can't find which will be the best approach to deserialize it and have the id as part of the object? Something like this:

`Person (id: Int, name: String)`

Thank you:slightly_smiling_face:

It would be a Map&lt;String, PersonDto&gt; where the PersonDto has only the name.

Then you map that to a List&lt;Person&gt;.

You can also go with a custom serializer but implementing it like this will be way simpler and easier to maintain while also providing encapsulation

Awesome. I will try it.  Thank you <@U0KBF8D7V> :pray:

Can it be that this does not work because the array of objects is not an array but an object?
```{
  "0": {"name": "John"},
  "1": {"name": "Jane"},
  "2": {"name": "Pete"},
  ...
}```
and not
```[
  "0": {"name": "John"},
  "1": {"name": "Jane"},
  "2": {"name": "Pete"},
  ...
]```

I'm receiving this error: `Error kotlinx.serialization.json.internal.JsonDecodingException: Expected start of the array '[', but had 'EOF' instead`

Use MapSerializer(String.serializer(), PersonDto.serializer))