Is it possible to serialize a generic Map in JVM/JS as a JSON object?

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Is it possible to serialize a generic Map<String, Any> in JVM/JS as a JSON object?

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I’m trying to figure out a way to serialize an arbitrary Map<String, Any> into JSON. In my case, I can guarantee that in runtime any value of the map is either a primitive, a list or a map. In case of lists and maps, the values of them are either primitives or lists or maps of the same pattern. Seems, it lays nicely on a json object.

I do not need to deserialize such an object, serialization only.

For now, I’m trying to write a custom serializer for such case but no success yet. How can it be done for both JVM and JS?

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dri94commented, Feb 21, 2019

Its about converting Any to JsonElement, not the other way around. Any isnt very type-safe but provides a big use case with Maps. As with other serializers it would just thrown an JsonException on unsupported types.

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sandwwraithcommented, Jan 31, 2019

@hotchemi You can replace Map type with JsonObject

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