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Deserialize empty protobuf list on iOS

See original GitHub issue

I have the following data class:

@Serializable
data class Test (
        @Optional @SerialId(1) var events: List<Event> = emptyList(),
        @Optional @SerialId(2) var games: List<Game> = emptyList()
)

Protobuf deserialization (proto3) works correctly on Android and iOS if both values are not empty. If at least one list property is empty (empty list), the deserialization fails on iOS with error: Unexpected EOF.

If empty property is commented out of data class, deserialization works on iOS as well.

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Created 5 years ago
Comments:5 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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sandwwraithcommented, Feb 5, 2019

https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx-io/pull/36 will fix this

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webfrea-kcommented, Feb 5, 2019

You are correct! I managed to make the response shorter and data is indeed handled correctly on iOS as well.

Max length working on both platforms (that I can re-produce): 96735 bytes
Length working on android and not on iOS: 128153 bytes

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