Hello Community, At the moment, I have two functi...

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[PriNova]

Hello Community,

At the moment, I have two functions, which are able to add and evaluate a lambda from a MutableList.

Now, I want to save this List to a file in a human-readable format and later load them again and evaluate the lambdas.
What is the best approach? Can I use JSON to save them? And edit them externaly.
I want to avoid the ScriptEngine because I'm using linux aarch as host so kotlin/native did not work nor is the jna library compatible.

Here is my code so far:

typealias func = ()-> Unit

@JvmField val command = mutableListOf<func>()

fun main() {
	
	add {
		val i =4
		println("${i}")
	}
	
	eval(command[0])
}

fun add(action: () -> Unit): Unit {
	command.add(action)
}

fun eval(action: () -> Unit) {
	action()
}

Thank you

[Joffrey]

You can't really serialize code as JSON, so yeah I would suggest using the script engine. Script engine doesn't mean you have to run on Native, though. You can run it in the JVM.

[PriNova]

@Joffrey Thank you for your quick reply. I will give the ScriptEngine a try.