```@Serializable data class RowBinMeta(val name: S...

# serialization

[jimn]

@Serializable
data class RowBinMeta(val name: String, val coord: Array<Int>, val typ: /*an enum*/ TypeMemento)

val meta: List<RowBinMeta> =  RowBinMeta.RowBinMetaList(elements)
val out = Json(JsonConfiguration.Default).toJson( meta  )

Exception in thread "main" kotlinx.serialization.SerializationException: Can't locate argument-less serializer for class kotlin.collections.List. For generic classes, such as lists, please provide serializer explicitly.

what am i missing?

[jimn]

    val out = Json(JsonConfiguration.Default).toJson(RowBinMeta::class.serializer().list, meta  )

is extremely counter-intuitive. im sure this is costly for the community to have to thread so many github issues to arrive at something that could be in the README

[Fudge]

Does it work without the ::class?

[jimn]

no, presumably it would work if it was just RowBinMeta and not the list of same

[jimn]

there are some intellij popups adding annotations here and there for serialization as well

[jimn]

i have 7000 of these but at least its a start.

[sandwwraith]

'Quick example' from root README.md says

val jsonList = json.stringify(Data.serializer().list, listOf(Data(42)))

: https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.serialization#quick-example