Special support for serializing Kotlin’s `object` ...

# serialization

[turansky]

> Special support for serializing Kotlin’s object
Is there any example on this theme?
What is use case for object ?

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

One is sealed classes that have object children.

[turansky]

Has it sense outside sealed class?

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

I’m sure someone can come up with a use case for it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Chris Miller]

Maybe if the object has mutable state that you want to preserve across application restarts?

[Kroppeb]

object serialization is useful in other polymorphic situations too, I'd assume.

[sandwwraith]

Initially that was the issue: https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.serialization/issues/400. So it looks like indeed objects are useful in polymorphic situations

[Antanas A.]

Actually we are currently creating a lot of inner classes without any parameters just for serialization

[Antanas A.]

They should be like object Unknown : State() but is
class Unknown() : State()

[sandwwraith]

Well, it seems that you should give this new feature a try