Is there a easy way to "pretty print" toString of a dataclass (indentations, new lines etc) ?

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[ursus]

Is there a easy way to "pretty print" toString of a dataclass (indentations, new lines etc) ?

[darych]

I think the only way is to override the toString function for the data class.

[Steven McLaughlin]

I think you could potentially create an extension function on Any that does pretty printing if it's standard across all your data classes

[darych]

@Steven McLaughlin But this will affect not only data classes. So for other developers this maybe a surprise.

[Steven McLaughlin]

Sure, I'd probably call it like toPrettyString() or something explicit.

[Steven McLaughlin]

Idk, maybe not the best solution, but it's something I'd probably consider depending on the scope of my project

[robin]

@ursus Don't know your use case, but a serialization library like kotlinx.serialization or Jackson might be a consideration instead?

[ursus]

@robin yea using json was my plan B