I have added a new issue on Youtrack <https://yout...

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[navi]

I have added a new issue on Youtrack
https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-25180
Here I want to add a toMap() function to Kotlin Any class which will return a hashmap of the variables of the class mapped to their instance value.

[edwardwongtl]

What’s the use case of this?

[lex]

it is useless... IMHO

[navi]

It’s kind of what we do with Gson.toJson(instance).

[lex]

if you need this extension - just write it with reflection

[lex]

you need jsonobject

[lex]

or use by map

[navi]

Why would I need Jason object

[navi]

Json

[lex]

https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/delegated-properties.html#storing-properties-in-a-map

[navi]

And why this will be bad idea to add a extension function toMap

[edwardwongtl]

What you do is basically transforming a object to a HashMap version of JsonObject

[navi]

But many classes are not constructed using Map

[navi]

@edwardwongtl so is there currently a way to directly convert any class instance to JsonObject without using Gson or any json object

[karelpeeters]

Note that you example class is really badly written, use class Animal(private var name: String, private var type: Int) instead.

[navi]

@karelpeeters done.. thanks for pointing out

[gildor]

@navi There is no way without reflections and making private members accessible. So definitely not a method for stdlib. If you need this, just write a library