Non-blocking way to build a struct from JsonObject (in Kotlin serialization)

Hello, I am looking to see if there is a non-blocking way to build a Struct from the serialization JsonObject. I have the following code:

val jsonObject = Json.decodeFromString<JsonObject>("{}")
val structBuilder = Struct.newBuilder()
JsonFormat.parser().merge(jsonObject.toString(), structBuilder)
val struct = structBuilder.build()

but the merge call is a blocking one:

Just wondering if there is any solution besides moving the proto back to a string. Thanks!

[bshaffer]

@jamesward done! https://github.com/grpc/grpc-kotlin/discussions

[jamesward]

Maybe an admin on this repo (@bshaffer perhaps) can enable discussions? https://docs.github.com/en/discussions/quickstart