Android: How to make type converters (for Room) generic for all List of objects in Kotlin

Will something like this won’t work for templating?

abstract class Converters<T> {

    @TypeConverter
    fun mapListToString(value: List<T>): String {
        val gson = Gson()
        val type = object : TypeToken<List<T>>() {}.type
        return gson.toJson(value, type)
    }

    @TypeConverter
    fun mapStringToList(value: String): List<T> {
        val gson = Gson()
        val type = object : TypeToken<List<T>>() {}.type
        return gson.fromJson(value, type)
    }
}

// create 
class UserConverter : Converters<User>()

// usage
@TypeConverters(UserConverter::class)
abstract class TestDatabase : RoomDatabase() {
    abstract fun userDao(): UserDao
}

or from the current example what if I do

@TypeConverter
fun <T> mapStringToList(inputString: String): List<T> {
    val array = inputString
        .split(strSeparator.toRegex())
        .dropLastWhile { it.isEmpty() }
        .toTypedArray()
    val result = mutableListOf<T>()
    val gson = Gson()
    // 👇 ----
    val type = object : TypeToken<List<T>>() {}.type
    // ----
    return array.fold(result) { acc, item ->
        acc.add(gson.fromJson(item, type))
        acc
    }
}