I've got a use case where kotlinx serialization mi...

# javascript

[Bernhard]

I've got a use case where kotlinx serialization might help, but that library only produces kotlin classes which I can't pass as plain JS objects to APIs; is there a solution?

[jw]

You could file a feature request to have the plugin work with `@JsPlainObject`s

https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/tree/master/plugins/js-plain-objects

[Bernhard]

not 100% if that's a good route to go with since external interfaces are extremely limited in what they support

[Bernhard]

it would be very helpful already if I could convert a data class into a JS object literal

[jw]

seems like you could write a function to do that conversion pretty easily

[Bernhard]

I'm not sure how well reflection works in this regard

[Bernhard]

would need to write that for each class

[turansky]

Or generate :)

[Bernhard]

not super interested in writing a compiler plugin, I'm already constantly yak shaving 🙂

[turansky]

Serialization in "dynamic object" will create JSO

[jw]

Yeah we use serialization to go to dynamic object and then use JSON to actually encode because it's massively faster

[Adam S]

Maybe this would help @Bernhard? https://github.com/adamko-dev/kotlinx-serialization-typescript-generator

It produces TypeScript, but it could be modified to produce JS instead?

[Bernhard]

thank you