Android Room Database Create Entity Object without Id

Question

My entity class:

@Entity(tableName = "student")
data class Student(
    @PrimaryKey(autoGenerate = true)
    val id: Long,

    val name: String,
    val age: Int,
    val gpa: Double,
    val isSingle: Boolean
) 

The problem is, since the id is auto-generated by the Room database - means no matther what I put for the id into the constructor it will be overridden anyway, and because it is one of the parameter in the constructor, I have to give the id every time like this:

val student = Student(0L, "Sam", 27, 3.5, true)

How can I avoid making up the id so I can just put in the neccessary data like this:

val student = Student("Sam", 27, 3.5, true)

Prine

Answer 1

How can I avoid making up the id

Just set default value to 0 (or null)

@Entity(tableName = "student")
data class Student(
    @PrimaryKey(autoGenerate = true)
    val id: Long = 0, <-- default value (or use null)

id is auto-generated by the Room database - means no matther what I put for the id into the constructor it will be overridden anyway

Not really like that. If you set id explicitly then this id will be used on insert.

Veldaveleda

Doesn't work, tells "Type mismatch" for the first augument. – Prine

Well, you can 1. place id parameter as the last constructor's parameter. or 2. use named arguments like val student = Student(name = "Sam", age = 27, gpa = 3.5, isSingle = true) – Veldaveleda

If you use type Long as in the example, the default value needs to be a Long too, so make it 0L instead of just 0 – Stumer

Answer 2

Don't place the id in the constructor:

@Entity(tableName = "student")
data class Student(
    val name: String,
    val age: Int,
    val gpa: Double,
    val isSingle: Boolean
) {
    @PrimaryKey(autoGenerate = true)
    var id: Long? = null
}

Bottomless

Answer 3

If you want the auto increment id for your case just in your entity set the type of id to Int and for the id value parameter in your constructor use the null value and this handle the work for you .

Declamatory