Hello guys, I wanted to use moshi to parse object ...

# android

[pawel.rybicki]

Hello guys, I wanted to use moshi to parse object to json string, the example on the lib docs says smth like this along the lines in order to achieve that:

Moshi moshi = new Moshi.Builder().build();
JsonAdapter<BlackjackHand> jsonAdapter = moshi.adapter(BlackjackHand.class);

String json = jsonAdapter.toJson(blackjackHand);

and I've been thinking its a bit of a boiler plate to write it for each class, so I came up with the idea of this:
fun Any.toJson() = Moshi.Builder().build().adapter(Any::class.java).toJson(this)
this way I can simply call AnyObj.toJson(), but I wonder if there is any downside of such solution?

[jw]

You should create the Moshi instance once and reuse it everywhere

[jw]

You should also ideally only look up the adapters as few times as possible

[jw]

Also using Any as the lookup type is not recommended

[pawel.rybicki]

uhm I see, so smth like this moshiInstance.adapter(Any::class.java).toJson(this) would be a little improvement, but using Any will slow down parsing object or...?

[jw]

inline fun <reified T> Moshi.adapter(): JsonAdapter<T> {
  return adapter(typeOf<T>())
}