What's the new dependency for kotlinx serializatio...

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[Nicholas Bilyk]

What's the new dependency for kotlinx serialization for RC1?
I see that coroutines has changed from kotlinx-coroutines-core-common and specific platforms to just kotlinx-coroutines-core, but implementation("org.jetbrains.kotlinxkotlinx serialization runtime1.0-M1-1.4.0-rc") doesn't seem to work...

[John O'Reilly]

1.0-M1-1.4.0-rc is working here

[John O'Reilly]

that's also version mentioned in https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2020/07/kotlin-1-4-rc-released/

[Nicholas Bilyk]

I don't mean the version, I mean what did the artifact change to?

kotlinx-serialization-runtime

Is resolved but doesn't have any common dependencies like KSerializer

[Nicholas Bilyk]

then kotlinx-serialization-runtime-common (what previously worked) didn't have that version

[Nicholas Bilyk]

I'm guessing that the artifact changed like how coroutines did, but I don't see what serialization changed to

[John O'Reilly]

What version are you updating from....fwiw I did update about a month or so ago that I believe required me to move away from using KSerializer ...switching instead to likes of MapSerializer

[Nicholas Bilyk]

Right. Yeah I think I figured it out. The confusion is that it's not the same as kotlinx coroutines. kotlinx coroutines it's

"org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kotlinx-coroutines-core:$kotlinCoroutinesVersion"

which will automatically pull in for your platform, but it doesn't seem that serialization does the same thing.

"org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kotlinx-serialization-runtime-js:$kotlinSerializationVersion"

works for js backend it seems.

[Nicholas Bilyk]

so I think I'm unblocked.
Previously it was: kotlinx-serialization-runtime-common
then -js -jvm for your specific backend
Now it's kotlinx-serialization-runtime-js, no need for 'common'

[Nicholas Bilyk]

but again, it's weird because that's backwards from coroutines, which is 'core' and no need for backend