Do I have to create serializers for Java types? For example UUID and Instant or is there some library available for it?

Does this help? https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.serialization

also more details here: https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.serialization/blob/master/docs/basic-serialization.md#basics

I have it working for standard Kotlin types but I get

Serializer has not been found for type 'UUID'

for example

I see, so you need to write a custom serializer for it, which probably just uses its toString(): https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.serialization/blob/master/docs/serializers.md#custom-serializers

Ah I was hoping that the standard JVM typs had serializers somewhere

in the principal README there are instructions on how to configure kotlinx.serialization in a pom, so no one excludes Maven 😉

Thanks! Ill get to writing serializers now 🙂

@Matteo Mirk how would we forget mvn anyway

surely not, maven is still strong, but I can understand Henrik because Gradle is preferred in Kotlin world, many docs only mention Gradle configurations and MPP only works with it

yeah, I think people like Gradle a lot these days, not only in the Kotlin community

personally I haven’t still got into it, but every config seems very chaotic to me because it’s code and so there are 1000 ways of writing it. As of now I still prefer Maven, even with its limitations.

Yeah I agree, I am undecided, but well, I’ll stick to what the team prefers, both tools work of course

The best evolution for Maven would be Polyglot Maven, but sadly it’s little known 😕

phew!

yeah it is! The best part to me is that you can use Yaml and get rid of XML, or you can use one of the supported languages to reproduce the pom configuration AND use code where it’s needed without resorting to maven plugins

well I will consider this eventually when I have the lead