How would you copy the whole content of class A to...

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[ritesh]

How would you copy the whole content of class A to class B
data class A(val name:String, val list:List<A>) to data class B(val name:String, val list:List<B>)

[LastExceed]

make both inherit from a common interface ?

[ritesh]

why do i need a interface there?

[ritesh]

can i not do deep copy here

[LastExceed]

...sry i didnt think this through. not sure if an interface actually helps with this

[Ashish Kumar Joy]

Not sure of kotlin, but in scala their is one library which help to achieve this may be something similar exists for kotlin as well.
https://scalalandio.github.io/chimney/

[Holger Steinhauer [Mod]]

Given classes A and B are implementing the same interface and you define the data class as data class Example(val name: String, val list:List<InterfaceName>) you get what you need and only need one data class 😉

[Holger Steinhauer [Mod]]

Which seems to be the best thing anyways

[Holger Steinhauer [Mod]]

Otherwise you should have a transformation method to get from A to B but I don’t see why you would do that 😉

[LastExceed]

why do you have 2 different data classes with the same structure anyway?

[ritesh]

I have a common kotlin module, which has a data class, but it needs to be parcelable. For that this common module module needs to be turn into android module which i dont want.
So i was thinking of copying this to other data class in android module through mapper and make the other class Parcelable.

[ritesh]

I found this, going to try it out, then maybe i dont have to do this

[ritesh]

https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.serialization/issues/148

[ritesh]

Don't thik this is going to android, I need a mapper in between one layer to other layer. Any easy way to acheive the deep copy here.

[Holger Steinhauer [Mod]]

Well, manual mapping might be the only possible way then. Unless you want to get out the big guns like mapstruct.

[Holger Steinhauer [Mod]]

You could just have a shared data structure for both sides

[Holger Steinhauer [Mod]]

see it as DTO