Hello, good evening everyone. I have a plan repla...

# serialization

[Sam]

Hello, good evening everyone.
I have a plan replace Gson to Serialization.
But My project has many modules, they are using Moshi and Gson in Core module ( base module for all of Features)

So What are the pros and cons of using Serialization library?
Is there anything I need to keep in mind when switching from Gson to Serialization?

Thanks.

[Big Chungus]

Kotlinx.Serialization doesn't use reflection and works on MPP projects. Downsides are that only Json format is currently stable and somethimes you'll need to massage it a bit on more complex object serialization/deserialization

Overall I personally am a huge fan of kotlinx.serialization when compared with Gson or Jackson

[Sam]

How’s about speed? Do you know any benchmark on Serialization?

[Dariusz Kuc]

kotlinx.serialization is in many ways simpler than gson/moshi/jackson yet in others pretty limited - since it relies on compiler it has hard time working with some dynamic map structures (ie handling Map<String, Any> is pretty problematic...)

[Colton Idle]

Here's a good talk on json and serialization including all of the libraries you mentioned by one of the authors of gson and moshi:

https://youtu.be/1PwdqkKDCSo?t=1807▾

[Sam]

Many Thanks.