Hi all, just wanted to share that I've released a ...

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[bishiboosh]

Hi all, just wanted to share that I've released a format for KotlinX Serialization for Java Properties files, if anyone's interested !
https://github.com/bishiboosh/properties-serializer

[ephemient]

it would be interesting to describe how it's different from https://kotlinlang.org/api/kotlinx.serialization/kotlinx-serialization-properties/ - I can see that it's a different implementation, but why?

[bishiboosh]

The difference is that the one from Kotlin just transforms a class into a Map, whereas mine really parses or write a Java Properties file

[bishiboosh]

I have to admit it's confusing, but the fault for that sits on Kotlin's side for calling this format "properties" where it doesn't serialize to a file format

[bishiboosh]

but I should maybe add that as info in my README because you probably won't be the only one having this kind of interrogation

[bishiboosh]

to be fair, my implementation reuses a lot of code from the one from Kotlin, it just adds the step that actually serializes the data to a file format

[Sebastian Schuberth]

No offence, but isn't it trivial to serialize a map as properties, as the Properties class actually is a Map?

[bishiboosh]

it's trivial from the JVM, but not from a KMP standpoint

[bishiboosh]

again, I should probably say it in the README, obviously, thanks all for the advice

[ephemient]

a multiplatform reader/writer for Java Properties is useful on its own, without being tied to serialization IMO. connecting the two together would be trivial when needed

[bishiboosh]

you're not wrong, I'll try to see if I can separate both sides when I get the time