kotlinx.serialization support for the External Term Format.
| ETF type | Kotlin type |
|---|---|
| SMALL_INTEGER_EXT | Byte, Char, Int, Long |
| INTEGER_EXT | Short, Int, Long |
| SMALL_TUPLE_EXT | List |
| LARGE_TUPLE_EXT | List |
| MAP_EXT | Map, Class |
| NIL_EXT | null |
| STRING_EXT | String |
| LIST_EXT | List, String¹ |
| SMALL_BIG_EXT | Long² |
| LARGE_BIG_EXT | Long² |
| NEW_FLOAT_EXT | Double, Float |
| ATOM_UTF8_EXT | Boolean, property name |
| SMALL_ATOM_UTF8_EXT | Boolean, property name |
| ATOM_EXT | Boolean, property name |
| SMALL_ATOM_EXT | Boolean, property name |
| ATOM_CACHE_REF | none |
| FLOAT_EXT | none |
| PORT_EXT | none |
| NEW_PORT_EXT | none |
| PID_EXT | none |
| NEW_PID_EXT | none |
| BINARY_EXT | none |
| REFERENCE_EXT | none |
| NEW_REFERENCE_EXT | none |
| NEWER_REFERENCE_EXT | none |
| FUN_EXT | none |
| NEW_FUN_EXT | none |
| EXPORT_EXT | none |
| BIT_BINARY_EXT | none |
- ¹ Strings longer than 65535 characters will be represented as a list of chars instead.
- ² Values decoded from this tag may be bigger than Long.MAX_VALUE. Decoding values that would cause an overflow will throw a
SerializationExceptioninstead.