What do you guys use for mongodb in your ktor apps...

# ktor

[Big Chungus]

What do you guys use for mongodb in your ktor apps?

[Marc Knaup]

My own library: https://github.com/fluidsonic/fluid-mongo

[Big Chungus]

Looks like kmongo is more of what I need. Your lib is missing object mapping/serialization 😕

[Big Chungus]

https://litote.org/kmongo/quick-start/

[Marc Knaup]

You’ll have to write your own codecs.

I’ve used KMongo before and got rid of it because they convert everything to intermediary JSON and that led to many bugs. I also didn’t like their library API.

[Marc Knaup]

But that was a year ago

[Marc Knaup]

I’ve got to write a compiler plugin that creates all these codes 🙂

[Big Chungus]

Odd, can;t find any mentions of having to write codecs on their docs

[Big Chungus]

Ah, since v3.11.2 they've added kotlinx.serialization support which "generates" the codecs i guess

[Marc Knaup]

No, I mean in my library I write codecs

[Marc Knaup]

You can’t really created codecs from kotlinx.serialization.

[Marc Knaup]

You can only use some JSON intermediary as crutch.

[Marc Knaup]

Codecs are too deeply coupled to the MongoDB driver to make good use of kotlinx.serialization.

[Marc Knaup]

I wouldn’t want to use kotlinx.serialization for that anyway 😅 I keep hitting limitations way too fast with that.

[vonox7]

https://github.com/studo-app/katerbase