How to serialize form-data using kotlinx-serializa...

# server

[Md Sadique Inam]

How to serialize form-data using kotlinx-serialization

[Cies]

I wrote an internal library to *de*serialize the x-www-form-urlencoded body from POST requests sent by browser on form submit into a FormDto data class object. It uses Jackson (JSON lib for the JVM) as it has really good type coercion features (in the x-www-form-urlencoded body everything is a string, in the FormDto data class object we have specific types: Long, Int, Enum, Boolean, String, some sub-FormDto data class and collections of the aforementioned).

Works like a charm! (more lines of test than lines of actual lib code)