```@Serializable data class Teaser( val text: ...

# serialization

[zt]

@Serializable
data class Teaser(
    val text: Text
) {
    @Serializable
    data class Text(val content: String)
}

How can I get rid of the boxing of text and be able to use it just like a string?

[Adam S]

@Serializable
@JvmInline
value class Text(val content: String)

do you mean like a value class?

then you can do

Json.decodeFromString<Teaser>("""
{
  "text": "blah blah"
}
""")

[zt]

I wanna be able to decode this

{
  "text": {
    "content": "g"
  }
}

to this

Teaser(text=g)

[Mitchell Syer]

@Serializable
data class Teaser(
    @SerialName("text")
    val textObj: Text
) {
    constructor(text: String) : this(Text(text))

    @Transient // not sure if this is needed
    val text: String
        get() = textObj.content

    @Serializable
    data class Text(val content: String)
}

[zt]

isn't this for just serializing? I only need deserializing

[Mitchell Syer]

The Serializable annotation is for both serializing and deserializing

[Mitchell Syer]

If you don't need serializing you can remove the secondary constructor from the code I posted