package kotlinx.serialization.json import kotlinx.serialization.* import kotlinx.serialization.descriptors.* /** * Represents naming strategy — a transformer for serial names in a [Json] format. * Transformed serial names are used for both serialization and deserialization. * A naming strategy is always applied globally in the Json configuration builder * (see [JsonBuilder.namingStrategy]). * * Actual transformation happens in the [serialNameForJson] function. * It is possible to apply additional filtering inside the transformer using the `descriptor` parameter in [serialNameForJson]. * * Original serial names are never used after transformation, so they are ignored in a Json input. * If the original serial name is present in the Json input but transformed is not, * [MissingFieldException] still would be thrown. If one wants to preserve the original serial name for deserialization, * one should use the [JsonNames] annotation, as its values are not transformed. * * ### Common pitfalls in conjunction with other Json features * * * Due to the nature of kotlinx.serialization framework, naming strategy transformation is applied to all properties regardless * of whether their serial name was taken from the property name or provided by @[SerialName] annotation. * Effectively, it means one cannot avoid transformation by explicitly specifying the serial name. * * * Collision of the transformed name with any other (transformed) properties serial names or any alternative names * specified with [JsonNames] will lead to a deserialization exception. * * * Naming strategies do not transform serial names of the types used for the polymorphism, as they always should be specified explicitly. * Values from [JsonClassDiscriminator] or global [JsonBuilder.classDiscriminator] also are not altered. * * ### Controversy about using global naming strategies * * Global naming strategies have one key trait that makes them a debatable and controversial topic: * They are very implicit. It means that by looking only at the definition of the class, * it is impossible to say which names it will have in the serialized form. * As a consequence, naming strategies are not friendly to refactorings. Programmer renaming `myId` to `userId` may forget * to rename `my_id`, and vice versa. Generally, any tools one can imagine work poorly with global naming strategies: * Find Usages/Rename in IDE, full-text search by grep, etc. For them, the original name and the transformed are two different things; * changing one without the other may introduce bugs in many unexpected ways. * The lack of a single place of definition, the inability to use automated tools, and more error-prone code lead * to greater maintenance efforts for code with global naming strategies. * However, there are cases where usage of naming strategies is inevitable, such as interop with an existing API or migrating a large codebase. * Therefore, one should carefully weigh the pros and cons before considering adding global naming strategies to an application. */ @ExperimentalSerializationApi public fun interface JsonNamingStrategy { /** * Accepts an original [serialName] (defined by property name in the class or [SerialName] annotation) and returns * a transformed serial name which should be used for serialization and deserialization. * * Besides string manipulation operations, it is also possible to implement transformations that depend on the [descriptor] * and its element (defined by [elementIndex]) currently being serialized. * It is guaranteed that `descriptor.getElementName(elementIndex) == serialName`. * For example, one can choose different transformations depending on [SerialInfo] * annotations (see [SerialDescriptor.getElementAnnotations]) or element optionality (see [SerialDescriptor.isElementOptional]). * * Note that invocations of this function are cached for performance reasons. * Caching strategy is an implementation detail and should not be assumed as a part of the public API contract, as it may be changed in future releases. * Therefore, it is essential for this function to be pure: it should not have any side effects, and it should * return the same String for a given [descriptor], [elementIndex], and [serialName], regardless of the number of invocations. */ public fun serialNameForJson(descriptor: SerialDescriptor, elementIndex: Int, serialName: String): String /** * Contains basic, ready to use naming strategies. */ @ExperimentalSerializationApi public companion object Builtins { /** * A strategy that transforms serial names from camel case to snake case — lowercase characters with words separated by underscores. * The descriptor parameter is not used. * * **Transformation rules** * * Words' bounds are defined by uppercase characters. If there is a single uppercase char, it is transformed into lowercase one with underscore in front: * `twoWords` -> `two_words`. No underscore is added if it was a beginning of the name: `MyProperty` -> `my_property`. Also, no underscore is added if it was already there: * `camel_Case_Underscores` -> `camel_case_underscores`. * * **Acronyms** * * Since acronym rules are quite complex, it is recommended to lowercase all acronyms in source code. * If there is an uppercase acronym — a sequence of uppercase chars — they are considered as a whole word from the start to second-to-last character of the sequence: * `URLMapping` -> `url_mapping`, `myHTTPAuth` -> `my_http_auth`. Non-letter characters allow the word to continue: * `myHTTP2APIKey` -> `my_http2_api_key`, `myHTTP2fastApiKey` -> `my_http2fast_api_key`. * * **Note on cases** * * Whether a character is in upper case is determined by the result of [Char.isUpperCase] function. * Lowercase transformation is performed by [Char.lowercaseChar], not by [Char.lowercase], * and therefore does not support one-to-many and many-to-one character mappings. * See the documentation of these functions for details. */ @ExperimentalSerializationApi public val SnakeCase: JsonNamingStrategy = object : JsonNamingStrategy { override fun serialNameForJson( descriptor: SerialDescriptor, elementIndex: Int, serialName: String ): String = convertCamelCase(serialName, '_') override fun toString(): String = "kotlinx.serialization.json.JsonNamingStrategy.SnakeCase" } /** * A strategy that transforms serial names from camel case to kebab case — lowercase characters with words separated by dashes. * The descriptor parameter is not used. * * **Transformation rules** * * Words' bounds are defined by uppercase characters. If there is a single uppercase char, it is transformed into lowercase one with a dash in front: * `twoWords` -> `two-words`. No dash is added if it was a beginning of the name: `MyProperty` -> `my-property`. Also, no dash is added if it was already there: * `camel-Case-WithDashes` -> `camel-case-with-dashes`. * * **Acronyms** * * Since acronym rules are quite complex, it is recommended to lowercase all acronyms in source code. * If there is an uppercase acronym — a sequence of uppercase chars — they are considered as a whole word from the start to second-to-last character of the sequence: * `URLMapping` -> `url-mapping`, `myHTTPAuth` -> `my-http-auth`. Non-letter characters allow the word to continue: * `myHTTP2APIKey` -> `my-http2-api-key`, `myHTTP2fastApiKey` -> `my-http2fast-api-key`. * * **Note on cases** * * Whether a character is in upper case is determined by the result of [Char.isUpperCase] function. * Lowercase transformation is performed by [Char.lowercaseChar], not by [Char.lowercase], * and therefore does not support one-to-many and many-to-one character mappings. * See the documentation of these functions for details. */ @ExperimentalSerializationApi public val KebabCase: JsonNamingStrategy = object : JsonNamingStrategy { override fun serialNameForJson( descriptor: SerialDescriptor, elementIndex: Int, serialName: String ): String = convertCamelCase(serialName, '-') override fun toString(): String = "kotlinx.serialization.json.JsonNamingStrategy.KebabCase" } private fun convertCamelCase( serialName: String, delimiter: Char ) = buildString(serialName.length * 2) { var bufferedChar: Char? = null var previousUpperCharsCount = 0 serialName.forEach { c -> if (c.isUpperCase()) { if (previousUpperCharsCount == 0 && isNotEmpty() && last() != delimiter) append(delimiter) bufferedChar?.let(::append) previousUpperCharsCount++ bufferedChar = c.lowercaseChar() } else { if (bufferedChar != null) { if (previousUpperCharsCount > 1 && c.isLetter()) { append(delimiter) } append(bufferedChar) previousUpperCharsCount = 0 bufferedChar = null } append(c) } } if (bufferedChar != null) { append(bufferedChar) } } } }