Hello I'm using Ktor Client and I faced an issue that I don't know how to solve although I think I have some ideas on how to solve it Disclaimer: I don't know if I should post it here or #serialization 😅 There's an API that for the same parameter can return a

String

or a

List<String>

, if I get the response and use

response.body<MyClass>()

For instance this is

MyClass

@Serializable
data class MyClass(
    val parameter: String // Could also be List<String>
)

Of course this fails to serialize because there's an illegal input, expect a specific type not both. This crashes when finds that there's some parameter in the json that is a

List<String>

I was thinking of ways to solve it, and the first thought was setting

Any

but, of course, breaks the serialisation laws. Then I thought that maybe I can do some custom deserialization but I don't wanna spend too much time shooting my shot in the dark. Do you know if that's the way or is there any other better approach?

I would receive the body as a String or ByteArray and try to convert it twice by catching the serialization exception.

Beautiful,

JsonElement

removes any headache!! Thank you 😉

and try to convert it twice by catching the serialization exception.

Just curious, is there any example for this? I wonder how much effort would involve in doing this

Never mind. I though that you need to convert to

List<MyClass>

or

MyClass

.