I need to encode a Point(x, y) as `[x, y]`. There ...

# serialization

[ansman]

I need to encode a Point(x, y) as [x, y]. There seems to be many ways of doing it. The simplest is to read it as a List<Float> but I’d like to avoid boxing the floats if possible on the JVM. There is beginStructure and beginCollection but no documentation on when to use either or.

[Dominaezzz]

I've done something similar here. https://github.com/markaren/three.kt/blob/fb5fec50a4f82671fdf3911b18d67024cb93eb56/core/src/jvmMain/kotlin/info/laht/threekt/loaders/gltf/Serializers.kt

[ansman]

Ah, there are a bunch of more useful methods to implement

[ansman]

I would assume that addElement handles a lot of the stuff but maybe that’s not for list types?

[Dominaezzz]

Yes but only if you use SerialClassDescImpl.

[ansman]

Right, any downside to that?

[Dominaezzz]

None that I know of.

[Dominaezzz]

I got my implementation from the existing List serializers.

[ansman]

Ah, right. It makes sense that they would use a more optimized version