Am I imagining things, or are there currently no l...
# multiplatformm
matej
02/10/2020, 3:47 PMAm I imagining things, or are there currently no libraries for XML parsing / serialization in kotlin-native?
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kpgalligan
02/10/2020, 3:55 PMNo XML libraries
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matej
02/10/2020, 3:59 PMThanks, huh, that's sobering. I guess I have to take the interface route and pass a platform specific serializer/parser into the common code instead.
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Kris Wong
02/10/2020, 4:04 PMyou might also be able to plug in to kotlinx.serializaton, so that you don't have to define the interface
Kris Wong
02/10/2020, 4:04 PMworth looking into
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matej
02/10/2020, 4:14 PMThanks guys!
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corneil
02/10/2020, 7:58 PMSo after more than 20 years I may be developing another XML parser
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kpgalligan
02/10/2020, 8:01 PMNot sure of availability, but will try to help out some on native side if useful
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olonho
02/11/2020, 4:57 AMThere are many small C XML parsers, like https://dev.yorhel.nl/yxml and it shall be easy to create pure .def klib using it
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corneil
02/11/2020, 5:59 AMI think until stdlib has common I/O library building XML or JSON support is going to be an ugly process.
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kpgalligan
02/11/2020, 11:43 AMThere is json support now
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krtko
02/15/2020, 8:12 PMIncase you you haven't seen this, https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.serialization/issues/188
I expect once Kotlin Serialization goes stable, we'll see a first party XML extension
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