:mega: Serialization v `0.10.0-eap-1` (dev branch) has just been released! This is a companion relea...

# serialization

[sandwwraith]

📣 Serialization v 0.10.0-eap-1 (dev branch) has just been released! This is a companion release to Kotlin 1.3.20-eap-52
Highlights:
• Now Native plugin supports generics, @SerialInfo annotations and other features that were missing before
• Now SerialDescriptor.getElementDescriptor is working and one can use it to deeply inspect descriptors tree
• JSON now can omit default values
• (breaking change) Context serializer is not enabled automatically anymore, use @ContextualSerialization on property.

Full changelog: https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.serialization/blob/dev/CHANGELOG.md

[Jonas Bark]

regarding the "omit default values":
when I have a simple class like this:
@Serializable
data class Test(val name: String? = null)

then Json(encodeDefaults = false).stringify(Test.serializer(), testInstance)
should print out "{}"? This doesn't seem to work for me

[Jonas Bark]

got it - name needs to have @Optional. The documentation of @Optional got me confused 🙂