Hello, I'm curious, is there an idiomatic way to k...

# serialization

[Gilles Barbier]

Hello, I'm curious, is there an idiomatic way to know at run time if an Any object is serializable ?

[Casey Brooks]

Automatically? Not really. There are no “marker” annotations, interfaces, or anything else added to serializable classes. On JVM you can look up a serializer via reflection, but that doesn’t work on MPP

The “idiomatic” way of knowing if an object is serializable is to pass its KSerializer wherever you’re trying to serialize it

[Gilles Barbier]

If I have a set of classes that I know to be Serializable, then how can I do something like:

myClassList.map { ... do something with it.serialiser() }

?

[Tomasz Krakowiak]

Not sure what exactly you're trying to do, but maybe solution for you is to use open polymorphic serialization - https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.serialization/blob/master/docs/polymorphism.md#static-parent-type-lookup-for-polymorphism