Hi, I'm playing around with Kotlin and am using Gs...
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boombastech
03/21/2017, 4:13 PMHi, I'm playing around with Kotlin and am using Gson too. I'm trying to use Gson to convert an object that has a reference to a property with type KClass. Gson throws a Stackoverflow exception for this, does anyone have an idea why please?
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miha-x64
03/21/2017, 4:17 PMHow do you want Gson to serialize KClass?
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boombastech
03/21/2017, 4:19 PMI tried to write a typeadapter
boombastech
03/21/2017, 4:19 PMclass KClassTypeAdapter : JsonSerializer<KClass<*>>
boombastech
03/21/2017, 4:20 PMthat just returns the simplename but it's not being picked up by gson
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miha-x64
03/21/2017, 4:20 PMAFAIK, Gson picks up Json(De)Serializers by raw type equality.
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boombastech
03/21/2017, 4:22 PMso would KClass<*> match KClass<out Marshaller>?
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miha-x64
03/21/2017, 4:29 PMSorry, by exact type equality. So no. (De)Serializers being wrapped into com.google.gson.internal.bind.TreeTypeAdapter.SingleTypeFactory.
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boombastech
04/13/2017, 1:20 PMhey forgot to say thanks for help, i was being a dope 🙂
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