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If you check validate, it should say it is invalid

There should be explanation somewhere re multi dispatch and decoding

Here the dispatch doesn't match any branch because the value isn't same type as dispatch values. And the information about the wanted type is only inside the dispatch branch.

You need to decode the value at the multi schema level

https://github.com/metosin/malli/?tab=readme-ov-file#multi-schemas ":dispatch values should be decoded before actual values:"

(that sentence does sound a bit strange)

":dispatch values should be decoded before using as dispatch value"

(m/encode [:multi {:dispatch :type}
             [:kikka [:map
                      [:type [:= :kikka]]
                      [:kikka :int]]]] {:type :kikka :kikka 1}
            (mt/json-transformer))
=> {:type "kikka", :kikka 1}

just add the decode/string to :multi

or I guess you could write :dispatch fn to coerce to correct type

(m/decode
   [:multi {:decode/string keyword :dispatch :type}
    [:kikka [:map
             [:type 
              [:and [:= :kikka] :keyword]]
             [:kikka :int]]]]
   {:type "kikka" :kikka 1}
   (mt/json-transformer))

decode/string at that level applies to the whole map

check the readme example

Not this either.

(m/decode
   [:multi {:dispatch :type}
    [:kikka [:map
             [:type {:decode/string keyword}
              [:and [:= :kikka] :keyword]]
             [:kikka :int]]]]
   {:type "kikka" :kikka 1}
   (mt/json-transformer))

ah, its probably at the lower level still

(m/decode [:multi {:dispatch :type :decode/string #(update % :type keyword)} .... )

I couldn't get that working but I resorted to adding a custom transformer that does it

Thanks for your help!