Hello all, is there a way to do Partial<TypeName> like in TypeScript? I saw this question already asked on [stack overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50651879/kotlin-feature-like-typescript-partial) but its unanswered. My use case is having a

data class User(name: String, pass: String, email: String, etc...)

and then an update method which would take a Partial User so that you'd only have to supply a subset of the fields

fun update(user: Partial<User>): User {...}

. Should I just create a new type for this? Such as

data class PartialUser(name?: String = null, pass?: String = null, email: String = null, etc...)

.

You’ll have to create a second type, yes

Thanks, good to know what's possible/isn't possible. I ended up creating separate types for create/update in the end. I think its better than partial anyway because their accepted fields vary slightly.

I have a codegen that handles this. You add a

@PartialDataObjects(["Partial","Create","Update"])

annotation to a data object X and it will create

PartialX

,

CreateX

,

UpdateX

data objects for you. it’s not totally ready for public consumption but i’ve found it super handy for my own projects if you’re interested: https://github.com/stardogventures/stardao/tree/master/stardao-kotlin-partial