Hi, I'm new to serialization(in JS it is just about JSON.stringify and JSON.parse from my perspectiv...

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[xun su]

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.

[Dariusz Kuc]

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

[Dariusz Kuc]

Also #serialization is probably better channel to ask about it

[xun su]

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

[Landry Norris]

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).