Hi, I have a very weird problem where when I try t...

# serialization

[Ayfri]

Hi, I have a very weird problem where when I try to serialize a list of elements Predicate with custom serializer, I always get a "type": "kotlin.collections.ArrayList even with a custom serializer :

object PredicateConditionsSerializer : KSerializer<List<Predicate>> by ListSerializer(Predicate.Companion.Predicate) {
	override fun serialize(encoder: Encoder, value: List<Predicate>) {
		require(encoder is JsonEncoder) { "Predicate can only be serialized with Json" }

		val element = buildJsonArray {
			value.forEach { condition ->
				add(Json.encodeToJsonElement(Predicate.Companion.Predicate, condition))
			}
		}

		encoder.encodeJsonElement(element)
	}
}

Even when element is replaced with a simple array of one string : buildJsonArray { add("test") } I get this :

[
    "type": "kotlin.collections.ArrayList",
    "test"
]

[Ben Woodworth]

I'm suspecting it's some kind of mismatch between the serial descriptor and the way it's being encoded, but it's hard to be sure

What happens if instead of delegating to the list serializer, you implement everything like a surrogate serializer, setting the descriptor to JsonArray.serializer().descriptor, and instead of encodeJsonElement, doing encodeSerializableValue(JsonArray.serializer(), element)