With kotlinx-serialization, I want to be able to annotate a property as `@Ref` and have the serializ...

# serialization

[Jason Ankers]

With kotlinx-serialization, I want to be able to annotate a property as @Ref and have the serializer only serialize the id property of the referenced type. Is this possible? I.e.

data class Video(
    val name: String,
    @Ref val user: User,
)

// serialized to:

{
    name: "example",
    user: {
        id: "123"
    }
}

[ephemient]

I'm not sure how you expect deserialization to work, but…

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[dimitar_]

If you don’t necessary need JSON - I wrote a library that serializes/deseeializes to binary with Amazon IoN that retains object references.

https://github.com/dimitark/kotlinx-serialization-ion

[Jason Ankers]

@ephemient looks good cheers!