Hi, I have a strange Kotlin serialisation issue in...

# android

[Tower Guidev2]

Hi, I have a strange Kotlin serialisation issue in my current Android application

[Tower Guidev2]

Part of my API Request resembles this data model, which I have populated with default values

@Serializable
data class RequestOptionalInput(

    @SerialName("USER_AGENT")
    val userAgent: String = "",

    @SerialName("WEB_SERVER")
    val webServer: String = "",

    @SerialName("REFERRER")
    val referrer: String = "0.0.0.0",

    @SerialName("ROUTE")
    val route: String = "/",

    @SerialName("ANALYTICS_ID")
    val analyticsId: String = "",

    @SerialName("DOMAIN_TOKEN")
    val domainToken: String = "",

    @SerialName("DOMAIN_NAME")
    val domainName: String = ""
)

However when I perform

json.encodeToString(request)

on the entire request object all my default values are completly missing, the only way I can get the "default" values to appear is to "manually" set them in the constructor.
Is there any approach I can use that will allo wme to use the default values? instaed of having to always code them passed in the data class constructor?

[haris mehmood]

must have to call constructor

[ephemient]

val json = Json { encodeDefaults = true }

[ephemient]

in some future version: https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.serialization/pull/1528

[Tower Guidev2]

Nice
I tried searching for that type of config and failed 🤦‍♂️
thanks for taking the time to assist me 😄