Is it possible to inject a serializer? For exampl...

# serialization

[Paul Woitaschek]

Is it possible to inject a serializer?

For example I have a data class in my gradle module x. It has a UUID and the KSerializer<UUID> lives in gradle module y.
My module x doesn't know anything about my module y.
Now I would like to inject that UUIDSerializer instance. Is that possible?

[thana]

ther is no difference bettween a serializer and any other object...

[Paul Woitaschek]

Well there is because the compiler complains that no serializer for UUID can be found

[thana]

no, there's not. if you decalre an object in modul X and you do not import module X then you cannot access that module, obviously

[spand]

Inject into what ?

[Paul Woitaschek]

Into the serializer

[Paul Woitaschek]

Using moshi I would let module y provide an adapter to my app module and then module x would receive a JsonAdapter<UUID> I would then use

[thana]

you need a way to access that object. if you cannot access it, you're lost. of course you could introtude module m which depends on x and y and to the injection there

[Paul Woitaschek]

And is it normal, that the functions create serializers each time?

[Paul Woitaschek]

output.encodeSerializableElement(serialDesc, 0, (KSerializer)UUIDSerializer.INSTANCE, self.id);
      output.encodeStringElement(serialDesc, 1, self.name);
      output.encodeBooleanElement(serialDesc, 2, self.isYazioRecipe);
      output.encodeSerializableElement(serialDesc, 3, new LinkedHashMapSerializer(new EnumSerializer(Reflection.getOrCreateKotlinClass(Nutrient.class)), (KSerializer)DoubleSerializer.INSTANCE), self.nutrients);
      output.encodeSerializableElement(serialDesc, 4, new LinkedHashMapSerializer(new EnumSerializer(Reflection.getOrCreateKotlinClass(Mineral.class)), (KSerializer)DoubleSerializer.INSTANCE), self.minerals);
      output.encodeSerializableElement(serialDesc, 5, new LinkedHashMapSerializer(new EnumSerializer(Reflection.getOrCreateKotlinClass(Vitamin.class)), (KSerializer)DoubleSerializer.INSTANCE), self.vitamins);
      output.encodeSerializableElement(serialDesc, 6, new LinkedHashMapSerializer(new EnumSerializer(Reflection.getOrCreateKotlinClass(NutritionalValue.class)), (KSerializer)DoubleSerializer.INSTANCE), self.nutritionals);
      output.encodeNullableSerializableElement(serialDesc, 7, (KSerializer)StringSerializer.INSTANCE, self.imageUrl);
      output.encodeIntElement(serialDesc, 8, self.portionCount);
      output.encodeSerializableElement(serialDesc, 9, new ArrayListSerializer((KSerializer)com.yazio.android.recipedata.RecipeServing..serializer.INSTANCE), self.servings);
      output.encodeNullableSerializableElement(serialDesc, 10, (KSerializer)StringSerializer.INSTANCE, self.description);
      output.encodeSerializableElement(serialDesc, 11, new ArrayListSerializer((KSerializer)StringSerializer.INSTANCE), self.instructions);
      output.encodeSerializableElement(serialDesc, 12, new ArrayListSerializer(new EnumSerializer(Reflection.getOrCreateKotlinClass(RecipeTag.class))), self.tags);
      output.encodeIntElement(serialDesc, 13, self.preparationTimeInMinutes);
      output.encodeSerializableElement(serialDesc, 14, new EnumSerializer(Reflection.getOrCreateKotlinClass(RecipeDifficulty.class)), self.difficulty);