Pass `InputStream` to `Protobuf.load`

What is your use-case and why do you need this feature?

AFAIU, currently I can only to pass a ByteArray when deserializing data. I wonder if it would be possible to pass an InputStream instead.

I want to deserialize a variable-size data structure coming from the network, so I don’t know the exact size beforehand to create a ByteArray.

(I’m sorry if I missed some important information about the design that invalidates this question.)

Describe the solution you’d like

[fsantanna]

@AlexanderShniperson ,

This is how I’m doing:

import kotlinx.serialization.protobuf.ProtoBuf

@Serializable
data class MyData (...)

val myData = MyData(...)

// from data to bytearray
val bytes: ByteArray = ProtoBuf.dump(MyData.serializer(), myData)

// from bytearray back to data
val myData2 = ProtoBuf.load(MyData.serializer(), bytes)

It’s actually very straightforward.

[qwwdfsad]

Closing as duplicate