Kotlinx.Serialization deserializing dates

Question

I'm having a hard time finding documentation on how to deserialize date fields. How do i achieve this? Most solutions i found on SO don't work or they use classes that are no longer available

@Serializable
data class Dashboard(
    val someNumber: Int,
    val someDate: Date? // Custom Deserialization from unix timestamp
)

EDIT: Most solution i found use PrimitiveSerialDescriptor which seems to be not available

Answer 1

Do not use Date, but use Instant or LocalDateTime instead, you need to add this in build.gradle file

implementation "org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kotlinx-datetime:0.3.2"

read more about it in this link: https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx-datetime

This will automatically Serializable and also work in KMM 😀