<@U0BRK9HC5> and where there is some examples, I a...

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[Olekss]

@gildor and where there is some examples, I am looking at it and cant find... I remember there where some tests somewhere which had this, but I am probably too stupid to find it

[gildor]

Examples of usage?

[gildor]

https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.serialization/tree/master/example-jvm

[gildor]

and docs
https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.serialization/blob/master/docs/examples.md

[gildor]

There is probably no implementation about mapping map to protobuf, but it’s possible if you write own adapter, it’s pretty straight forward

[gildor]

but you can serialize Kotlin class to protobuf out of the box

[Olekss]

come again?

[Olekss]

how I can serialize kotlin class into protobuf?

[Olekss]

essentially I need to pass mapOf<String,Any> over the wire, and it might not be human readable, and that "Any" will be mostly primitives, or other such maps/lists nothing fancy

[gildor]

kotlinx.serialization allow you to do that (serilize Kotlin class into Protobuf), check examples:
https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.serialization/blob/master/docs/examples.md

[gildor]

kotlinx.serialization allows to serialize Kotlin data classes to any format, you just should write custom format implementation.
For example take a look on this example:
https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.serialization/blob/master/example-jvm/src/CustomKeyValueDemo.kt