Hello, I was wandering how to make Kotlin Enum cla...

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[hdarritchon]

Hello, I was wandering how to make Kotlin Enum class serializable the good Way. I see some people using kotlinx.serializable with annotation @Serializable, somme others could use implementation avec the enum class like

enum class Content(val value: String) : Serializable {

In java, Enum is serializable by design but not in Kotlin. How would you do it ?

[Dominaezzz]

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[David Eriksson]

Depends on what the enum represents and the purpose of the serialization.

[hdarritchon]

@David Eriksson thankx for reply but can you be more explicit, sorry I don’t catch up your thought 😞

[David Eriksson]

Example 1: if I have an enum with colours and I have enums red, green, blue then I would serialize to the RGB value

[David Eriksson]

Example 2: if I have an enum class with colours and it contains Background colour, foreground colour, accent colour, then I would store a string representation,e.g. "BACKGROUND_COLOR"

[David Eriksson]

Example 3: If I was serializing between two parts of the same running application, I could just use the ordinal of the enum, as it will be binary compatible. For example between a service on Android and the main application.

[hdarritchon]

@David Eriksson thanks a lot for this detail answer 😄