Is there a KMP option to deal with raw Json objects Like <ht kotlinlang #multiplatform

Is there a KMP option to deal with raw Json objects? Like JSONObject from android? I am aware of kotlinx.serialization but I am interested in constructing arbitrary untyped Json objects and adding arrays/values inside it instead of mapping from/to Kotlin classes

02/08/2022, 4:29 PM

kotlinx.serialization offers that

Stylianos Gakis

02/08/2022, 4:29 PM

Alright, my bad, I’ll have to look further into that, thanks a lot!

02/08/2022, 4:29 PM

https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.serialization/blob/master/docs/json.md#json-element-builders

https://kotlin.github.io/kotlinx.serialization/kotlinx-serialization-json/kotlinx.serialization.json/-json-element/index.html

Stylianos Gakis

02/08/2022, 4:30 PM

Wow that is just… amazing how could I have missed it? Thank you very much, I really appreciate the speedy response Jake!

After working with it a bit, it’s amazing for constructing Json objects from scratch, but isn’t as convenient in a use case I have of also having an existing Json object and having to edit some specific fields inside it. There isn’t as far as I can tell a

buildJsonObject

alternative that takes an existing

JsonObject

as initial state, and working on a

JsonObject

directly trying to edit it doesn’t seem to be what I want either as it’s immutable by default and there isn’t a Mutable alternative to it 🤔 Am I missing something again in the API or is it just a matter of making my own implementation of it by turning it into a

.toMutableMap()

, doing the edits I want, and then turning it back into a

JsonObject

myself.

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