set the channel description: Support and discussion for Mirror, a multiplatform reflection plugin and runtime.

Mirror can be found at https://github.com/lightningkite/mirror-kotlin.

An issue has been found with Native - I don't know how it compiled in the first place, but a fix should be incoming early Monday.

The fix should also enable the use of all the native platforms that KotlinX serialization supports.

New version released!

This fixes issues with Native and adds other native platforms.

In terms of development, the build scripts have been greatly improved

Any examples or docs for use with polymorphism? Particularly using internal discrimators

@josephivie ^^^

@Patrick Jackson Right now, it's built to use the name of the class itself without the package. If you want to use alternate names for your classes, you could modify the name index after setup. I'm going to add a function for that probably tonight - I'm glad to take such feature requests as long as they're not overly complicated. https://github.com/lightningkite/mirror-kotlin/blob/master/mirror-runtime/src/commonMain/kotlin/com/lightningkite/mirror/info/MirrorClassMirror.kt#L15

Might add that it uses

{"type":"YourClass", "value":{}}

I'll look into adding some more stuff for that as well, so that you can write your discriminator manually.

@channel New version released! 0.1.8 You can now use

polymorphicSerializer=path.to.my.PolymorphicMirror

to set your own polymorphic serializer! It must, however, conform to these standards: - It must have a header of

abstract class MyPolymorphicMirror<T : Any> : MirrorClass<T>()

- It can use

MirrorRegistry

to get information about names for classes I still have to add a whole bunch of documentation and tests for it, but it should work now. This also fixes a lot of issues with generating mirrors across multiple packages.

mirror-server

is also being worked on - a system for sending typed request objects to and from a ktor server.

great! Still unclear on how to implement this but I'll take a look.

Other clarification I missed - it will not work on the type

Any

. There's unfortunately no way I've found to make it overrideable without hurting performance and clearness.

Would Mirror provide a solution to the problem I’ve described in #javascript? https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/C0B8L3U69/p1569868026112600