Hello all, I’m getting error when I try deserializ...

# serialization

[Spikey Sanju]

Hello all, I’m getting error when I try deserialize an object from JSON using Kotlin Serialization. I get the following error 👇

[Spikey Sanju]

Here’s my JSON file 👇

[
  {
    "emoji": "😍",
    "description": "Love",
    "category": "this is category"
  },
  {
    "emoji": "🚀",
    "description": "Rocket",
    "category": "this is category"
  },
  {
    "emoji": "✅",
    "description": "Check",
    "category": "this is category"
  },
  {
    "emoji": "🛍",
    "description": "Shopping",
    "category": "this is category"
  },
  {
    "emoji": "🔥",
    "description": "Fire",
    "category": "this is category"
  }
]

[Spikey Sanju]

Here’s the simple code snippet 👇

import kotlinx.serialization.decodeFromString
import kotlinx.serialization.json.*
import model.AllEmojiItem
import java.io.File
import java.util.*

fun main() {
    val scanner = Scanner(System.`in`)
    println("Enter the file path: ")
    val filePath = scanner.nextLine()
    println("File is $filePath")
    val emojiJson = File(filePath).readText()

    // reading filePath 👀
    println("Reading filePath 👀... \n")

    // decode from string
    val decodeEmoji = Json.decodeFromString<AllEmojiItem>(emojiJson)
    println("Decoding :$decodeEmoji")
}

[Spikey Sanju]

Here’s model class 👇

package model

import kotlinx.serialization.Serializable

@Serializable
data class AllEmojiItem(
    val aliases: List<String>,
    val category: String,
    val description: String,
    val emoji: String,
    val ios_version: String,
    val skin_tones: Boolean,
    val tags: List<String>,
    val unicode_version: String
)

[Javier]

you have a list of objects, not an object

[Vampire]

But it should then complain that there is [ instead of {, not EOF, shouldn't it?