//*************************When using with Retrofit please use below converter*************************************
implementation("com.jakewharton.retrofit:retrofit2-kotlinx-serialization-converter:0.8.0")

//A Retrofit 2 Converter.Factory for Kotlin serialization.
val contentType = "application/json".toMediaType()
val retrofit = Retrofit.Builder()
    .baseUrl("https://example.com/")
    .addConverterFactory(Json.asConverterFactory(contentType))
    .build()
    
    
    //**************************Dependency gradle*******************************
plugins {
    id 'org.jetbrains.kotlin.plugin.serialization' version '1.6.10'
}

buildscript {
    ext.kotlin_version = '1.6.10'
    repositories { mavenCentral() }

    dependencies {
        classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-serialization:$kotlin_version"
    }
}

dependencies {
    implementation "org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kotlinx-serialization-json:1.3.2"
}
    

/*
otlinx.serialization comes with a simple but powerful pure-Kotlin API, which makes it effortless to parse JSON into type-safe 
Kotlin objects, and vice versa.
*/

@Serializable
data class User(val name: String, val yearOfBirth: Int)

fun main() {
   // Serialization (Kotlin object to JSON string)

   val data = User("Louis", 1901)
   val string = Json.encodeToString(data)
   println(string) // {"name":"Louis","yearOfBirth":1901}

   // Deserialization (JSON string to Kotlin object)

   val obj = Json.decodeFromString<User>(string)
   println(obj) // User(name=Louis, yearOfBirth=1901)
}


/*
Whether you’re trying to serialize a data class with default initializers for its properties, 
a singleton object, or trying to deserialize a generic List<T>: kotlinx.serialization always 
behaves as you would expect. 
*/
@Serializable
data class Project(
   val name: String,
   val owner: Account,
   val group: String = "R&D"
)

@Serializable
data class Account(val userName: String)

val moonshot = Project("Moonshot", Account("Jane"))
val cleanup = Project("Cleanup", Account("Mike"), "Maintenance")

fun main() {
   val string = Json.encodeToString(listOf(moonshot, cleanup))
   println(string)
   // [{"name":"Moonshot","owner":{"userName":"Jane"}},{"name":"Cleanup","owner":{"userName":"Mike"},"group":"Maintenance"}]

   val projectCollection = Json.decodeFromString<List<Project>>(string)
   println(projectCollection)
   // [Project(name=Moonshot, owner=Account(userName=Jane), group=R&D), Project(name=Cleanup, owner=Account(userName=Mike), group=Maintenance)]
}


/*
As you can see, even the type-safe deserialization of collections with generics is handled by kotlinx.serialization just as expected. 
This certainly isn’t the norm,
*/