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Diffstat (limited to 'runtime/commonMain/src/kotlinx/serialization/KSerializer.kt')
| -rw-r--r-- | runtime/commonMain/src/kotlinx/serialization/KSerializer.kt | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/runtime/commonMain/src/kotlinx/serialization/KSerializer.kt b/runtime/commonMain/src/kotlinx/serialization/KSerializer.kt index 6c4811b4..0f31bebe 100644 --- a/runtime/commonMain/src/kotlinx/serialization/KSerializer.kt +++ b/runtime/commonMain/src/kotlinx/serialization/KSerializer.kt @@ -11,14 +11,14 @@ package kotlinx.serialization * * Serialization is decoupled from the encoding process to make it completely format-agnostic. * Serialization represents a type as its serial form and is abstracted from the actual - * format (whether its JSON, ProtoBuf or a hashing) and is not aware of the underlying storage + * format (whether its JSON, ProtoBuf or a hashing) and unaware of the underlying storage * (whether it is a string builder, byte array or a network socket), while * encoding/decoding is abstracted from a particular type and its serial form and is responsible * for transforming primitives ("here in an int property 'foo'" call from a serializer) into a particular * format-specific representation ("for a given int, append a property name in quotation marks, - * then append a semicolon, then append an actual value" for JSON) and how to retrieve a primitive + * then append a colon, then append an actual value" for JSON) and how to retrieve a primitive * ("give me an int that is 'foo' property") from the underlying representation ("expect the next string to be 'foo', - * parse it, then parse semicolon, then parse a string until the next comma as an int an return it). + * parse it, then parse colon, then parse a string until the next comma as an int and return it). * * Serial form consists of a structural description, declared by the [descriptor] and * actual serialization and deserialization processes, defined by the corresponding @@ -54,9 +54,9 @@ public interface KSerializer<T> : SerializationStrategy<T>, DeserializationStrat * the shape of the serialized form (e.g. what elements are encoded as lists and what as primitives) * along with its metadata such as alternative names. * - * The descriptor is used dynamically, during serialization by encoders and decoders - * to introspect the type and metadata of [T]'s elements being encoded or decoded and - * statically, to introspect the type, infer the schema or to compare against the predefined schema. + * The descriptor is used during serialization by encoders and decoders + * to introspect the type and metadata of [T]'s elements being encoded or decoded, and + * to introspect the type, infer the schema or to compare against the predefined schema. */ override val descriptor: SerialDescriptor |