hi, I want to serialize a custom class into a nest...

# serialization

[Yao-Wen Mei]

hi, I want to serialize a custom class into a nested map (with my own encoder, not introducing JSON into my code base).

For example, if I have my data classes defined like this:

@Serializable
data class Project(val name:String, val owners: List<Users>)

@Serializable
data class Users(val name: String)

After serialization, I wish to get a nested map equals to:

val map = mutableMapOf<String, Any>()
map.put("name", "project_name")
map.put("owners", listOf(mapOf("name" to "user1"), mapOf("name" to "user2"))

Could you please give me some hint how can I implement this Encoder please ( I do have a Decoder working BTW)? Should my Encoder extend the AbstractEncoder() or TaggedEncoder() ? May I get some document for how to implement this? The official guide only contains an example for serializing to List, but does not show how to get the key values if I want to serialize to Map. Thank you very much.

[Dominaezzz]

Check out https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.serialization/tree/master/formats%2Fproperties