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    Sam

    3 years ago
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    I'm consuming an api that uses an empty string for a null but sends an object when the key is not null like so:
    "mods":{"mod1":""}
"mods":{"mod1":{"comp":">=","point":3}}
    Is there a way to construct a class or annotate the property to deal with this?
    Dominaezzz

    Dominaezzz

    3 years ago
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    I was battling with this yesterday. Basically inferring type from the payload is not possible.
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    Nvm, I'm wrong.
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    You definitely need a custom serialiser though. Have a look at https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.serialization/blob/a45e71af8bff3f76a3774fd0f8a1425de800a847/runtime/commonMain/src/kotlinx/serialization/json/JsonElementSerializer.kt .
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    Sam

    3 years ago
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    That’s the route I ended up going down. It wasn’t too painful. I made the custom serializer on the object containing the switchable key and returned a default empty mod1 object if the value was a json literal type.
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