KToml deserialization ignores serializersModule

[matytyma]

Imagine a serializable class Foo, that has a @Contextual property bar of type Bar, just like this:

@Serializable
class Foo(
    @Contextual
    val bar: Bar
)

Then imagine whatever serializer for Bar called BarSerializer. Now if you want to deserialize Foo, you need to add the BarSerializer to serializersModule. Reading from a file, it should look like this

val module = SerializersModule {
    contextual(BarSerializer)
}

val reader = TomlFileReader(serializersModule = module)

val foo = reader.decodeFromFile<Foo>(serializer(), "somefile.toml")

This doesn't work though - an exception¹ will be raised. I've tried the equivalent in JSON and everything worked as expected.

When I further dug into the source code, I couldn't find any usage of serializersModule in the way of decodeFromFile and decodeFromString, while it is present in the chain of encodeToString.

Exact implementation details for my case can be found on the Kotlin Slack

Footnotes

1. kotlinx.serialization.SerializationException: Serializer for class 'Bar' is not found.
   Please ensure that class is marked as '@Serializable' and that the serialization compiler plugin is applied. ↩