Room Persistence: Error:Entities and Pojos must have a usable public constructor

Question

I\'m converting a project to Kotlin and I\'m trying to make my model (which is also my entity) a data class I intend to use Moshi to convert the JSON responses from the API<

Answer 1

It turned out to be a bug on the library https://github.com/googlesamples/android-architecture-components/issues/49

Answer 2

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/62851733

i found this is @Relation's projection bug! not Kotlin language problem. based google GithubBrowserSample java also happend error, but different error message.

below is my kotlin code:

data class UserWithCommunities(
        @Embedded
        var user: User = User(0, null),

        @Relation(parentColumn = "id",
                entityColumn = "users_id",
                entity = CommunityUsers::class,
                projection = arrayOf("communities_id")) // delete this line.
        var communityIds: List<Int> = emptyList()
)

right:

data class UserWithCommunities(
        @Embedded
        var user: User = User(0, null),

        @Relation(parentColumn = "id",
                entityColumn = "users_id",
                entity = CommunityUsers::class)
        var communityList: List<CommunityUsers> = emptyList()
)

Answer 3

Kotlin plugin doesn't pick up annotationProcessor dependencies, So use the latest version of Kotlin annotation processor - put this line at top of your module's level build.gradle file

apply plugin: 'kotlin-kapt'

like

apply plugin: 'kotlin-android'
apply plugin: 'kotlin-android-extensions'
apply plugin: 'kotlin-kapt'  // add this line

android {
    compileSdkVersion 28
    defaultConfig {
      ........
    }
}

Don't forget to change the compileSdkVersion accordingly.

Answer 4

you need to specify a secondary constructor like so:

@Entity(tableName = "movies")
data class MovieKt(
    @PrimaryKey
    var id : Int,
    var title: String,
    var overview: String,
    var poster_path: String,
    var backdrop_path: String,
    var release_date: String,
    var vote_average: Double,
    var isFavorite: Int
) {
    constructor() : this(0, "", "", "", "", "", 0.0, 0)
}    

Answer 5

In my case I wasn't returning type in one of the Dao query hope it helps others Thanks

Answer 6

To expand on the answers provided by @evanchooly and @daneejela, you need a secondary constructor to be able to use @Ignore parameters in your primary constructor. This is so Room still has a constructor that it can use when instantiating your object. Per your example, if we ignore one of the fields:

@Entity(tableName = "movies")
data class MovieKt(
        @PrimaryKey
        var id : Int,
        var title: String,
        var overview: String,
        var poster_path: String,
        var backdrop_path: String,
        @Ignore var release_date: String,
        @Ignore var vote_average: Double,
        @Ignore var isFavorite: Int
) {
    constructor(id: Int, title: String, overview: String, poster_path: String, backdrop_path: String) {
        this(id, title, overview, poster_path, backdrop_path, "", 0.0, 0)
    }
}