I am currently working on a project that requires a search feature that retrieves JSON data from a website. The app is supposed to display that data using a RecyclerView. However, Android studio refuses to accept my dataset into the recyclerview adapter. My deserialized JSON data is coming in the form of a List and is deserialized using the KotlinX serializer.

@Serializable
data class searchResults(@SerialName("name") val name: String,
                     @SerialName("description") val description: String,
                     @SerialName("website") val website: String )


val query = Query(searchBox.getText().toString())
            val result = index.search(query)    

val searchObject: List<searchResults> = 
            result.hits.deserialize(searchResults.serializer()) 

adapter = resultsAdapter(searchObject)
recyclerView.adapter = adapter

However, the adapter insists on taking the searchResults deserializer data class with it in the space that it would normally take the ViewHolder data class.

class resultsAdapter(var searchObject: List<searchResults>) : RecyclerView.Adapter<resultsAdapter.resultsViewHolder>(){

inner class resultsViewHolder(itemView : View) : RecyclerView.ViewHolder(itemView){
    val name: TextView = itemView.findViewById(R.id.nameResult)
    val description: TextView = itemView.findViewById(R.id.descriptionResult)
    val website: TextView = itemView.findViewById(R.id.websiteResult)
}

override fun onCreateViewHolder(parent: ViewGroup, viewType: Int): resultsViewHolder {
    val view = LayoutInflater.from(parent.context).inflate(R.layout.rowlayout, parent, false)
    return resultsViewHolder(view)
}

override fun getItemCount(): Int {      
    return searchObject.size

}

override fun onBindViewHolder(holder: resultsViewHolder, position: Int) {

    val currentItem = searchObject[position]
    holder.name.text = currentItem.name
    holder.description.text = currentItem.description
    holder.website.text = currentItem.website


    }

}

From reading documentation online I believe the ViewHolder data class is supposed to be initialized in the results Adapter. It should say “List ViewHolder” instead of “List searchResults” during the variable initialization, however, whenever I try to implement that change I am thrown an error saying:

Type mismatch.
Required:
List<resultsData>
Found:
List<searchResults>

What is the correct way to do this?