I'm playing with polymorphic serialization but wit...

# serialization

[Arkadii Ivanov]

I'm playing with polymorphic serialization but with a tricky use case. Wondering whether the following implementation of KSerializer is correct. See the thread. It seems working but I want to double check.

[Arkadii Ivanov]

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[Arkadii Ivanov]

Let's say there is a library that I don't own, which contains the following code.

interface Some

// Some storage, unrelated to the question
internal var storedJson: String? = null

fun <T : Any> save(value: T, serializationStrategy: SerializationStrategy<T>) {
    val json = Json.encodeToString(serializer = serializationStrategy, value = value)
    storedJson = json
}

fun <T : Any> restore(deserializationStrategy: DeserializationStrategy<T>): T? {
    val json = storedJson ?: return null
    return Json.decodeFromString(deserializer = deserializationStrategy, string = json)
}

[Arkadii Ivanov]

And I want to use that PolymorphicSerializer as follows.

class FooTest {

    @Test
    fun foo() {
        val value = Value(some = SomeImpl(value = 1))

        save(value, Value.serializer())
        val restoredValue = restore(Value.serializer())

        assertEquals(value, restoredValue)
    }

    @Serializable
    data class Value(
        @Serializable(SomeSerializer::class) val some: Some,
    )

    object SomeSerializer : PolymorphicSerializer<Some>(
        baseClass = Some::class,
        module = SerializersModule {
            polymorphic(Some::class) {
                subclass(SomeImpl::class, SomeImpl.serializer())
            }
        },
    )

    @Serializable
    data class SomeImpl(val value: Int) : Some
}

[Arkadii Ivanov]

The test passes, though I'm not sure if it's OK that it's not possible to introspect my `PolymorphicSerializer`'s descriptor, as it contains a contextual element and the module is not registered anywhere.