When I add "io.ktor:ktor-serialization-kotlinx-xml...

# multiplatform

[Darryl Pierce]

When I add "io.ktor:ktor-serialization-kotlinx-xml" to my libs.version.toml file and sync I get Could not resolve io.ktorktor serialization kotinx xml2.3.12" for "sharedio[all ios platforms]" I'm stumped on what I'm doing wrong here. I have a similar dependency on ktor's JSON serialization and that doesn't have the above error with iOS. 😕

[mbonnin]

You’re missing a ‘l’ in kotinx-xml

[mbonnin]

The artifact is available here

[Darryl Pierce]

I think that typo was just from me copying the error message into Slack. I made sure I had the right name:

ktor-serialization-kotlinx-json = { module = "io.ktor:ktor-serialization-kotlinx-json", version.ref = "ktor" }
ktor-serialization-kotlinx-xml = { module = "io.ktor:ktor-serialization-kotlinx-xml", version.ref = "ktor" }

and added the dependency to commonMain but I'm still getting the error with iOS:

[Darryl Pierce]

Is there something special that has to be done to make XML serialization available to iOS devices? Seems odd they'd need native code for that.

[Darryl Pierce]

I tried adding io.ktor:ktor-client-serialization-ios as a dependency for iosMain but that doesn't seem to provide whatever it needs. 😕

[mbonnin]

Mmmm, right, looking at the .module file it doesn’t look like it’s available on iOS

[mbonnin]

If it were, you would see the variants there

[mbonnin]

Ah, there’s no first party XML support in kotlinx-serialization: https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.serialization/issues/188

[mbonnin]

I wonder what ktor is using 🤔

[mbonnin]

They’re using https://github.com/pdvrieze/xmlutil

[mbonnin]

Which looks like it’s supporting iOS (but ktor-serialization-kotlinx-xml is not)

[mbonnin]

You can try using https://github.com/pdvrieze/xmlutil directly

[Darryl Pierce]

@mbonnin kk - ty, I'll give it a try.