Hi, is there a way to define private setter for property defined in constructor param? I need someth...

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[Tomas Kormanak]

Hi, is there a way to define private setter for property defined in constructor param?
I need something like this, but because of @Seriazlizable annotation constructor can not have parameter which is not property

@Serializable
class Document(
    name: String,
) {
    var name: String = name
        private set
}

[Stephan Schroeder]

your class compiles for me and looks good.
What fails?

[Klitos Kyriacou]

kotlinx.serialization requires primary constructor to parameters to be properties. It compiles, but it won't serialize automatically.

[ephemient]

not as far as I know, but you can

@Serializable
class Document(
    @SerialName("name")
    private var _name: String,
) {
    val name: String
        get() = _name
}

[ephemient]

this might work too,

@Serializable
class Document private constructor(
) {
    constructor(
        name: String,
    ) : this(
    ) {
        this.name = name
    }

    var name: String = ""
        private set

but unfortunately both do have some effect on the public API of your class