I think the instruction to apply the serialization plugin in this <tutorial> is wrong. The correct o...

# multiplatform

[vivek anand]

I think the instruction to apply the serialization plugin in this tutorial is wrong. The correct one for kts should be

kotlin("plugin.serialization").version("1.9.10").apply(false)

[Javier]

If you set apply to false it is not applied. The tutorial is valid.

[vivek anand]

I don't think that's what the apply method does the documentation is as below. I understand that apply(false) apply the plugin to the sub-projects and not just the current project.

Anyway, the issue with the tutorial is that the gradle syntax is wrong, for kts the version and other parameters should be applied as chained method calls.

[Javier]

both, version and apply, should be infix functions so it is a valid syntax

[Javier]

If you set apply to false the plugin is not applied and it will not work in the current project, using apply false is commonly done in the root project in order to add the plugin with a specific version to the classpath

[Javier]

but it will not be applied to root or any subproject.

[vivek anand]

I am not sure if version and aplpy are infix functions, they seem to be Java methods to me. Anyway using version as an infix method did not work for me, chaining it as above with apply(false) worked though. Maybe some version mismatch I guess 🤔

[vivek anand]

NVM I found the infix versions, but I get a gradle error tho

[vivek anand]

Caused by: org.gradle.internal.resolve.ModuleVersionNotFoundException: Could not find org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-serialization-compiler-plugin-embeddable:1.8.21.

[Javier]

I haven’t used the serialization embeddable plugin before

[Javier]

https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/jetbrains/kotlin/kotlin-serialization-compiler-plugin-embeddable/

[Javier]

But looks like its first published version is 1.9.0, at least on maven central

[Javier]

Maybe previous versions exist in the bootstrap repository

[vivek anand]

Hmm weird, I think what you said about the syntax in the tutorial being valid is correct. But using that in the shared module is giving me the above error, but using it in the root project works.

[vivek anand]

Which I think is what apply false also does but the tutorial says to apply the plugin to the gradle file in the `shared`module, but then I think apply false also have to be added, otherwise kotlin("plugin.serialization") version "1.9.10" should be added to the gradle file in the root project 🤔

[Javier]

Are you sharing the same version between Kotlin and Kotlin Serialization?