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hey guys. i just jumped into developing a backend with kotlin yesterday (based on ktor); looking for a good solution for database access at the moment. so far i think i’ll go with `exposed`, but i cant really find samples/tutorials for the set-up, best-practices or something. in theory i’d want to deploy to heroku at some point (so postgresql i guess). maybe someone has some insights/hints for me?

You might also look into <#C6J1N00DN|squash>, which is more light weight... or the vert.x clients, if you need async...

Async is really nice if rxjava or coroutines interest you

thanks. i’ve already switched over from exposed to squash, trying it atm. first impression is that mapping a database table to objects is tedious (`MyTable.select(…fields…).execute().map { MyObject(it.get&lt;String&gt;(0), it.get&lt;String&gt;(1), …)}`) - is there a better way to do this?

I've personally been wanting to switch to it, but haven't gotten there yet... I suggest you ask in <#C6J1N00DN|squash> channel, good luck!

I’ve been converting data classes to JSONB for postgres.  It’s really slick.

I’ve been using GSON, but now that kotlin has better JSON support, I may try that out.