Another kinda related question. Is there a way to get the name of the current element from the KInpu...

# serialization

[pablisco]

Another kinda related question. Is there a way to get the name of the current element from the KInput? I guess this may only apply to JSON though.

[sandwwraith]

you can get current index, and then map it using method of KSerialClassDesc. It is equal to property name by default.

[pablisco]

But that's order dependent right?

[sandwwraith]

Dependent on order inside class declaration in source file. JSON parser will determine current element even if they’re out-of-order in JSON and return correct index.

[pablisco]

Since I've got you here 🙂 what's the best way to parse a field that depends on information from another?

[sandwwraith]

You can try something like this https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.serialization/blob/master/runtime/jvm/src/test/kotlin/kotlinx/serialization/formats/json/JsonTreeAndMapperTest.kt#L35 , or if you don’t want to be tied to JSON, just write a custom serializer and home that independent element would go first, so you can make a right decision when dependent index would be encountered

[pablisco]

The Json input casting sounds like what I was thinking that I would need. What's the second option? I'm already doing a custom serialiser.