Coroutine Serialization.kt

fun main(args: Array<String>) {

    if (args[0] == "start") {
        launch(CommonPool) {
            println("Launching")
            SerialisationHelper.test()
            println("Finished")
        }
    }

    else {
        val coro = SerialisationHelper.deserialiseCoro()
        coro.resume(Unit)
    }

    while (true) {}

}

object SerialisationHelper {

    val kryo = Kryo()

    init {
        kryo.instantiatorStrategy = Kryo.DefaultInstantiatorStrategy(StdInstantiatorStrategy())
    }

    suspend fun test(): Unit = suspendCoroutine {
        println("Serialising")
        testSerialise(it)
    }

    fun <T: Any> serialiseCoro(coro: Continuation<T>) {
        val output = Output(FileOutputStream("coro.bin"))
        kryo.writeClassAndObject(output, coro)
        output.close()
    }

    fun deserialiseCoro(): Continuation<Any> {

        println("Deserialising")

        val fis = Input(FileInputStream("coro.bin"))

        val coro = kryo.readClassAndObject(fis) as Continuation<Any>
        fis.close()

        coro::class.java.getDeclaredField("result").apply {
            isAccessible = true
            set(coro, COROUTINE_SUSPENDED)
        }

        return coro
    }

    fun <T: Any> testSerialise(coro: Continuation<T>) {
        serialiseCoro(coro)
    }

}

What version of kotlin do you use?

This is a very old version of kotlin and likely no longer works anymore. For more up to date info I recommend checking out Kotlin/kotlinx.coroutines#76