I was looking for some lib have Kotlin DSL to buil...

# javascript

[frank]

I was looking for some lib have Kotlin DSL to build JSON like Koson for javascript.

[turansky]

FYI - https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin.js/json.html

[frank]

@turansky thx, I tried but is very verbose. I was looking for a simpler way but I see that it doesn't exist.

[turansky]

What means "simpler way"?

[turansky]

Possibly you need #serialization

[andylamax]

@frank json function from kotlin.js is almost similar to koson. How verbose is this?

val obj2 = json(
  "one" to 1,
  "three" to 3,
  "map" to json(
              
  ))

[frank]

@andylamax thx, I was looking for this.

I was using Pair inside of json () and it very verbose:

json(Pair("msg",item.textContent), Pair("type",type))

[andylamax]

extra syntax

json(
            "numbers" to json(
                "integers" to arrayOf(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8),
                "naturals" to arrayOf(0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
            ),
            "characters" to arrayOf('A', 'B', 'C', 'D'),
            "users" to arrayOf(
                json(
                    "name" to "John Wick",
                    "weapon" to "book"
                ),
                json(
                    "name" to "Thanos",
                    "weapon" to "Infinity Stones"
                )
            )
        )

[frank]

@andylamax, if need jsonArray like this:

[ 
{msg: "msg" }, 
{msg: "msg" } 
]

I have to define Array<Json> variable or there is some function or object that returns jsonArray?

[andylamax]

arrayOf(
    json("msg" to "msg"),
    json("msg" to "msg")
)

[frank]

arrayOf(

json("msg" to "msg"),

json("msg" to "msg")

)

Yes, I have seen that I am wrong and they are 2 json objects in array.

[andylamax]

That is the syntax, anyway