jackson-module-kotlin VS avro4k

Compare jackson-module-kotlin vs avro4k and see what are their differences.

jackson-module-kotlin

Module that adds support for serialization/deserialization of Kotlin (http://kotlinlang.org) classes and data classes. (by FasterXML)

avro4k

Avro support for kotlinx.serialization (by avro-kotlin)
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jackson-module-kotlin avro4k
9 2
1,095 181
1.4% 2.2%
9.4 6.7
4 days ago about 2 months ago
Kotlin Kotlin
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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jackson-module-kotlin

Posts with mentions or reviews of jackson-module-kotlin. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-19.
  • Jackson, moshi or kotlinx.serialization?
    8 projects | /r/Kotlin | 19 Oct 2022
    Jackson's learning curve is a lot lower (it helps that it's older and more popular, so there's more guides online), and it has a lot more options. However, Jackson doesn't fully support Kotlin, for example: value classes. For this reason, I would avoid it.
    8 projects | /r/Kotlin | 19 Oct 2022
    strictNullCheck option in the Kotlin module doesn't cover non-object-field situations at all. https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-module-kotlin/issues/479
  • From Java to Kotlin. There and back again
    7 projects | dev.to | 1 Apr 2022
    You should add Jackson Module Kotlin in your project. After that, you can't specify a type of object explicitly.
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    3 projects | /r/programming | 11 Dec 2021
    Not really, you just need to handle some standard types and have a good extension mechanism to let the user implement factories. That library having built in support for UUID and datetime is probably a bit much, I'd prefer a plugin like https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-module-kotlin
  • Ktor vs Spring for creating an API
    2 projects | /r/Kotlin | 2 Sep 2021
    There is a bug at this very moment that makes it literally impossible to deserialize [1, 2, 3, null] into a List with Jackson's Kotlin module. Yes- even if you set KotlinModule(strictNullChecks = true). It's just broken. (Here's the link: https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-module-kotlin/issues/479)
  • Kotlin Team AMA #3: Ask Us Anything
    52 projects | /r/Kotlin | 27 May 2021
    Got you, thanks. I didn’t mean to sound offensive - a better wording would be that they don’t seem to prioritize this part, at least based on https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-module-kotlin/issues/199, which has one abandoned branch from a 3rd party and a couple of comments from from maintainers.
  • kotlinx.serialization 1.2 Released: High-Speed JSON Handling, Value Class Support, Overhauled Docs, and more
    5 projects | /r/Kotlin | 7 May 2021
    If you use Jackson, don't forget to include the Kotlin extensions https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-module-kotlin

avro4k

Posts with mentions or reviews of avro4k. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-26.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing jackson-module-kotlin and avro4k you can also consider the following projects:

kotlinx.serialization - Kotlin multiplatform / multi-format serialization

klaxon - A JSON parser for Kotlin

Kotson

KTON - Object notation in pure Kotlin!

mapstruct-examples - Examples for using MapStruct

fluid-json - A JSON library written in pure Kotlin

kotlin-json - A JavaScript Object Notation library for Kotlin JVM.

Micronaut - Micronaut Application Framework

kson - Gson TypeAdapter & Factory generator for Kotlin data classes

ksp - Kotlin Symbol Processing API

Kotlin-Multiplatform-Libraries - Kotlin Multiplatform Libraries. Welcome PR if you find or create new Kotlin Multiplatform Library.

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