Hey all, getting my feet wet with Kotlinx Serializ...

# serialization

[Shan]

Hey all, getting my feet wet with Kotlinx Serialization and have a question: if I have an API request (in JSON) form which I only need, say, 3 primitives from for my usecase, what is the best practice way to define a @ Serializable data class to process this request? Do I have to generate a data class with every possibly entry and set default values, or can I just make a data class that only has the primitives I need and process it before the data class is generated somehow?

[uhe]

You mean like this?

import kotlinx.serialization.Serializable
import kotlinx.serialization.json.Json


fun main() {
    @Serializable
    data class Request(val relevant: Int)
    val json = """ { "relevant" : 42, "not-relevant" : 23 }"""
    val relevant = Json.nonstrict.parse(Request.serializer(), json).relevant
    println(relevant) // 42
}

[uhe]

Note the nonstrict part