I am using the `kotlin.time.Duration` concept in my code and see that I can convert to `String` pret...

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[Yan Pujante]

I am using the kotlin.time.Duration concept in my code and see that I can convert to String pretty easily. I am not seeing a way to go the other way around, which makes it quite hard to use it as a field in a form or to save/retrieve in preferences... Am I missing something?

[Youssef Shoaib [MOD]]

your best bet is to use something like toLongMilliseconds(), save that, and then when you retrieve it do a .milliseconds on that long value to retrieve it as a milliseconds value.

[Yan Pujante]

that works to save/read.. but that is super user unfriendly (please convert 1h15m in milliseconds before entering the value...)

[Youssef Shoaib [MOD]]

Oh so you mean like the pretty toString function? hmmm one second I'm gonna take a look at that source code and see what can be done

[Youssef Shoaib [MOD]]

For user input you should probably use something like a DateTimePicker like the Material components one. I'm saying this because looking at the toString code it's probably too complicated and error-prone to use for user input, especially because user input usually just cannot be trusted.

[Yan Pujante]

ok thank you. I will take a look at this

[ilya.gorbunov]

We have Duration.parse function in mind, so I've opened https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-45325 to track this feature request.

[Yan Pujante]

Sounds great thank you