How to clone object in Kotlin?

Question

The question is that simple.

Kotlin documentation describes cloning only in accessing Java and in enum class. In latter case clone is just throwing an exception.

Answer 1

It's also possible to clone an object using kotlinx.serialization

import kotlinx.serialization.Serializable
import kotlinx.serialization.json.Json
import kotlinx.serialization.json.JsonConfiguration

@Serializable
class A
{
    val name: String = "Cloneable class A"

    fun clone(): A {
        val json = Json(JsonConfiguration.Stable)
        val jsonStr = json.stringify(serializer(), this)
        return json.parse(serializer(), jsonStr)
    }
}