any way to give `Pair` a different name for `first...

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[snowe]

any way to give Pair a different name for first and second when json serializing?

[tarek]

I think you have to use a data class

[snowe]

yeah that's what I thought.

[agomez]

are you using jackson?

[snowe]

@agomez yes

[agomez]

you can register a mixin to customize pair serialization

[agomez]

mixins are handy when you need to customize the serialization of classes from 3rd party libraries

[agomez]

https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-docs/wiki/JacksonMixInAnnotations

[snowe]

Awesome. I have no clue how I've never heard of those before. Thank you very much

[snowe]

@agomez ah would this 'permanently' make Pair serialize into a different 'class'?

[nerses]

it will be much easier and concise just to create specialized data class then going with Mixins

[snowe]

@nerses well I would really like to retain the ability to use the to infix

[agomez]

it will apply to pair everywhere

[snowe]

@agomez yeah what I was really looking for was essentially a typealias but with named params, or a subclass where I could just override the properties, but it's final so I can't.

[nerses]

i haven’t tried but you can import your own to infix method

[snowe]

ah, didn't realize you could overload it.

[nerses]

it’s just a method in standard lib

[nerses]

so in theory you should be able to do that

[agomez]

or create another infix function similar to to but with another name

[diesieben07]

You can also write a custom serializer and annotate the Pair fields you want to be treated specially.

[snowe]

Yeah I had thought of those other solutions. Thanks for all the advice guys/girls!