this is my project structure, I want to parse json to kotlin object, and use it in ios side as well,...

# multiplatform

[Sevak Tadevosyan]

this is my project structure, I want to parse json to kotlin object, and use it in ios side as well, who can help me?

I need to:
get file path
decode it kotlin data type
use inside iosApp
question:
do I need to do anything with expect/actual?

[Landry Norris]

You can use okio to read the file, and kotlinx.serialization to parse the json. Both are multiplatform.

[Landry Norris]

If the file is using the compose resources plugin, I believe there's a method to get the contents of a resource as a byte array, which you can convert to a String, but I don't remember the method name off-hand.

[Sevak Tadevosyan]

my main problem is getting the file path, to get the json from file

[Alejandro Rios]

Are you using the latest version of CMP? I'm reading a txt file that is located in the composeResources folder with:

@OptIn(InternalResourceApi::class)
    private suspend fun getWordsFromLocal(board: List<String>): List<String> {
        val dictionary = readResourceBytes(boardDictionary).decodeToString().split("\r?\n|\r".toRegex()).toList()

Can't adjust code, I'm on cellphone 😅

File is located in

private var boardDictionary = "files/en_dictionary.txt"

[Joel Denke]

If using kotlinx serialization dont need the file path. Depending how you use it ofc. Like this:
https://kotlinlang.org/api/kotlinx.serialization/kotlinx-serialization-core/kotlinx.serialization/decode-from-byte-array.html

[Sevak Tadevosyan]

I decode from local json file

[Joel Denke]

Yes that should work