Are there any plans to make `kotlinx.serialization.json.Parser` public? I want to parse json stream ...

# serialization

[Alexander]

Are there any plans to make kotlinx.serialization.json.Parser public? I want to parse json stream and there are jvm-only solutions. Think it would be nice to have multiplatform streaming parser.

[gildor]

Are you talking about kotlinx.serialization parser? It's just one file, you can get source code and modify

[gildor]

But kotlinx.serialization is not streaming, as I understand. And not sure that parser with bindings may be streaming

[gildor]

Maybe you could take a look at #klaxon.
This is also JVM for now, but this is pure Kotlin library, maybe parsing and streaming part may be extracted to a separate Multiplatform library (without bindings, which requires kotlin-reflect and jot available on other platforms, only JVM)

[Alexander]

Are you talking about kotlinx.serialization parser? It's just one file, you can get source code and modify

I'm considering copying Parser from kotlinx.serialization.json. But are there any reasons to not make it public?

[sandwwraith]

Well, it does not have any documentation or precisely designed API, because parser and its tokens are considered as internal implementation detail

[gildor]

If you made something public, you now have some backward compatibility warranties, which is not good idea in case of experimental kotlinx.serialization and especially json api