What’s the Gradle task to generate serializers? I ...

# serialization

[ribesg]

What’s the Gradle task to generate serializers? I don’t see it in IDEA nor in the result of gradle tasks, but I do have the plugin kotlin("plugin.serialization") and everything compiles. It’s just that I don’t see them in IDEA

[elizarov]

There’s no separate task. It is a compiler plugin, so serializers are generated by Kotlin compile tasks.

[ribesg]

Well it just doesn’t work in my case

[ribesg]

I can’t find the generated code in my build folder

[ribesg]

But it somehow works. I also know that it was generated at some point

[elizarov]

Does not work in what case? How do you compile your code?

[ribesg]

I’m in native. My app is 100% Kotlin, compiled from XCode launching Gradle. XCode runs ./gradlew build which should generate the serializers I think

[elizarov]

It should, indeed, if you apply the serialization plugin

[ribesg]

It compiles and runs without issue, it’s just that IDEA doesn’t see the serializers and I don’t see them either in the build folder

[elizarov]

It means that plugin was not picked up by IDEA. Check your Kotlin plugin version first.

[ribesg]

I’m on 1.3.61 in Gradle, 1.3.61-release-AppCode-193.6015.49-14 in AppCode

[elizarov]

When you say “IDEA does not see” do you mean AppCode does not see?

[ribesg]

Same issue in both

[ribesg]

I use AppCode sometimes because you can run the project directly from it, and I use IDEA sometimes because AppCode doesn’t understand Gradle

[elizarov]

Can you share your build files? Also cc @sandwwraith

[ribesg]

Actually after reimporting Gradle in IDEA it removes all the red. It’s not doing that in AppCode

[ribesg]

So there’s a difference

[ribesg]

My build file is too complex but starts with

plugins {
    kotlin("multiplatform") version Versions.kotlin
    kotlin("plugin.serialization") version Versions.kotlin
    id("com.github.ben-manes.versions") version Versions.versionsGradlePlugin
}

[ribesg]

Then in my dependencies I have "iosMainApi"("org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kotlinx-serialization-runtime-native:${Versions.serialization}")

[ribesg]

If I close IDEA and open the project back in AppCode, the red comes back. So there’s an issue with AppCode / AppCode’s Kotlin Plugin

[elizarov]

It could be.

[ribesg]

Well I recently stopped being able to start the project from AppCode because of another K/N bug anyway, so RIP. I’ll use IDEA

[sandwwraith]

I'm not sure serialization plugin is supposed to work in AppCode

[sandwwraith]

Btw, serialization plugin does not generate .kt files; it emits bytecode/native code directly inside compiler pass

[sandwwraith]

Filed https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-36820. You can check whether I described your case correctly

[ribesg]

Thanks!