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Hi, I'm new to serialization(in JS it is just about JSON.stringify and JSON.parse from my perspective) , could someone tell me why the code below doesn't print `name:"foo"`  ? though I didn't initialize the field in the constructor, but they got a default value.

Per docs (<https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.serialization/blob/master/docs/basic-serialization.md#defaults-are-not-encoded-by-default|https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.serialization/blob/master/docs/basic-serialization.md#defaults-are-not-encoded-by-default>) default values are not serialized

Also <#C7A1U5PTM|serialization> is probably better channel to ask about it

thanks! wow serialization has its own channel, I've never thought about that:sweat_smile:

I believe there’s a setting for Json to encode default values, but I’d assume it’s off by default to reduce bandwidth requirements for Kotlin-Kotlin communication (for example, ktor client to ktor server).