Hey all. I have an endpoint that's unstable (data ...

# serialization

[Shan]

Hey all. I have an endpoint that's unstable (data models are changing semi-frequently without a versioning system- it's an ongoing discussion) for an application I am working on. I am using a Json(context = serializationContext) where my serializationContext is a SerializersModule which contains all of my contextual serializer mappings, to stringify/parse values, but need it to able to adapt to situations where the data model has changed server-side for older app versions that don't have an updated model. I could use Json.nonstrict for parsing/writing, but is there any way to use it with my serializationContext and have it fall back to nonstrict if the models don't match? Or is there a better way to do this that I'm missing?

[Shan]

I mainly just want it so that if it encounters an additional field it will fall back to nonstrict, but if a field is missing it will still crash during testing. I could catch the JsonDecodingException and fall back to non-strict that way, but I am hoping there is a better solution 😨

[marstran]

Maybe you could pass the Json configuration as a parameter? Then you could pass a strict config in tests and a non-strict one in production.

[Shan]

Not a bad solution; I could set the json config based off of the build environment I suppose. Thanks for the suggestion!