Is there any way to treat `null` in JSON as absent I have a kotlinlang #serialization

Is there any way to treat `null` in JSON as absent...

ansman

09/14/2019, 10:55 PM

Is there any way to treat

null

in JSON as absent? I have a

val foo: List<String> = emptyList()

which fails to be parsed if

foo

null

in the JSON

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Dominaezzz

09/14/2019, 10:58 PM

Custom encoder.

ansman

09/14/2019, 10:58 PM

I thought about that but since I couldn’t find a

peek

or similar on

Decoder

I don’t know how I would check if it’s null

Dominaezzz

09/14/2019, 11:04 PM

There are two ways around this. Use the new

NullableSerializer<T>

or use

decodeJson

and eagerly parse the json manually.

Dominaezzz

09/14/2019, 11:08 PM

The first being the preferable option.

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