Support for Kotlin Serialization?

[ivoanjo]

Hello there, and thanks for kscript!

I would like to request the addition of support for Kotlin Serialization. Since it needs an extra plug-in during compilation, I couldn't see any way to use it when using kscript.

[holgerbrandl]

Couldn't this be configured with an option parameter? Either for the compiler or runtime. kscript supports both, see the examples under
https://github.com/holgerbrandl/kscript#annotation-driven-script-configuration

[ivoanjo]

Interesting! You are right -- on a closer look, I could get it to work, although it's a bit of a hack since I need to hardcode a path to the jar.

#!/usr/bin/env kscript

@file:DependsOn("org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kotlinx-serialization-runtime:0.20.0", "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-maven-serialization:1.3.72")
@file:CompilerOpts("-Xplugin=/home/knuckles/.m2/repository/org/jetbrains/kotlin/kotlin-maven-serialization/1.3.72/kotlin-maven-serialization-1.3.72.jar")

import kotlinx.serialization.*
import kotlinx.serialization.json.*

@Serializable
data class Data(val a: Int, val b: String = "42")

fun main() {
    // Json also has .Default configuration which provides more reasonable settings,
    // but is subject to change in future versions
    val json = Json(JsonConfiguration.Stable)
    // serializing objects
    val jsonData = json.stringify(Data.serializer(), Data(42))
    // serializing lists
    println(jsonData) // {"a": 42, "b": "42"}

    // parsing data back
    val obj = json.parse(Data.serializer(), """{"a":42}""") // b is optional since it has default value
    println(obj) // Data(a=42, b="42")
}

main()

Is there a way to make this a bit more portable?

[holgerbrandl]

No clue. I've forwarded the question to the experts https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/C7A1U5PTM/p1593722985324800

[pvegh]

This doesn't seem to work anymore:
warning: the following compiler arguments are ignored on script compilation: -Xplugin
(also CompilerOpts isn't available, seems to have been renamed to CompilerOptions)

[jplewa]

Interesting! You are right -- on a closer look, I could get it to work, although it's a bit of a hack since I need to hardcode a path to the jar.
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Is there a way to make this a bit more portable?

I managed to get this approach to work, thanks! I have one question, though. Since I'm hoping to make this script portable, I don't really want to hard-code my own home path. Is there any way to interpolate the user's home path in the annotation string?

The following actually does work:

@file:CompilerOpts("-Xplugin=$HOME/.m2/repository/org/jetbrains/kotlin/kotlin-maven-serialization/1.7.20/kotlin-maven-serialization-1.7.20.jar")

However, it makes IntelliJ really angry:

I also tried "-Xplugin=\$HOME/.m2...", "-Xplugin={{HOME}}/.m2..." (according to the README, that works with @file:Repository) and multiple other random things, but none of them work :(

Has anyone figured out to make this work without infuriating IntelliJ?

[TJSomething]

Has anyone figured out to make this work without infuriating IntelliJ?

I know it's pretty late, but I found that you could use $(echo ~), like so:

@file:DependsOn("org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kotlinx-serialization-json:1.6.0", "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-maven-serialization:1.9.0")
@file:CompilerOptions("-Xplugin=$(echo ~)/.m2/repository/org/jetbrains/kotlin/kotlin-maven-serialization/1.9.0/kotlin-maven-serialization-1.9.0.jar")

It also works with --package while $HOME breaks that.