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Colton Idle
09/30/2023, 9:26 PMIs it possible to have a typealias that's serializable?
I thought this would work, but no go
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@Serializable
typealias BOOP = Stringthe docs seem to say that String is a primitive that's supported but I can't seem to even get String.serializer() either
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ephemient
09/30/2023, 11:20 PM Copy code
typealias BOOP = @Serializable Stringc
Colton Idle
09/30/2023, 11:38 PMintesting. i could've sworn i tried that and it did't compile. but it did this time.
i thought it would send it wrapped in json, but it just sends a raw string literal over the wire. So looks like I'll just do
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@Serializable
data class Thing(val boop: BOOP)
typealias BOOP = Stringe
ephemient
10/01/2023, 12:17 AMif it's literally
String➕ 1
it's more useful when you have
typealias SerializableFoo = @Serializable(with = ExternalFooSerializer::class) Foo👍 1
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Ben Woodworth
10/01/2023, 3:01 AMThough do note that there are some limitations, e.g.
https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-58338/Annotations-in-typealiasare-lost-through-inferred-generics