Folks, where are the instructions for use and/or e...

# serialization

[hallvard]

Folks, where are the instructions for use and/or extension of the MapLikeSerializer and HashMapSerializer classes?

[serebit]

You can use them by extension properties like so:
(String.serializer() to Int.serializer()).map produces a KSerializer for a Map<String, Int>.

[hallvard]

Thanks

[hallvard]

But I am still not fully familiar with this. What I try to serialize and deserialize is a map of Strings to {primitives and a small selection of serializable data class objects}. I have the possibility to have all the data classes be sealed, so a serializer could think of them as one, and I know that no other unknown object will suddenly appear in the map. But how would I go about making a serializer for a map where the values are either one of these data classes or a primitive? Are we in the not-(hopfully-yet)-feasible field here?

[serebit]

This is something I’ve pondered myself, and unfortunately there isn’t a clean solution to this. You could use PolymorphicDeserializer (which is experimental last I checked), or write your own implementation, or write a wrapper function that checks the JsonObject first to see what type the value is before deserializing it.