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Kotlin Room: Entities and Pojos must have a usable public constructor

When I run my application, I get a follow error.

Error: Entities and Pojos must have a usable public constructor. You can have an empty
  constructor or a constructor whose parameters match the fields (by name and type).
  Tried the following constructors but they failed to match:
  ChatMsg(java.lang.String,int) : [arg0 : null, arg1 : null]
Error: Entities and Pojos must have a usable public constructor. You can have an empty
  constructor or a constructor whose parameters match the fields (by name and type).
Error: Entities and Pojos must have a usable public constructor. You can have an empty
  constructor or a constructor whose parameters match the fields (by name and type).
  Tried the following constructors but they failed to match:
  ChatMsg(java.lang.String,int) : [arg0 : null, arg1 : null]
Error: Entities and Pojos must have a usable public constructor. You can have an empty
  constructor or a constructor whose parameters match the fields (by name and type).
Warning: Schema export directory is not provided to the annotation processor so we cannot export the schema. You can either provide `room.schemaLocation` annotation processor argument OR set exportSchema to false.

This is the build.gradle of my project

buildscript {
    ext.kotlin_version = '1.1.2-4'
    repositories {
        maven { url 'https://maven.google.com' }
        jcenter()  
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.0.0-alpha4'
        classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:$kotlin_version"
        classpath 'com.letv.sarrsdesktop:BlockCanaryExPlugin:0.9.9.2'

}
}   
allprojects {
    repositories {
        jcenter()
        maven { url 'https://maven.google.com' }
        maven { url "https://jitpack.io" }
        mavenCentral()
    }
}

task clean(type: Delete) {
    delete rootProject.buildDir
}

This is the build.gradle of my module

apply plugin: 'com.android.application'
apply plugin: 'kotlin-android'
kapt {
    generateStubs = true
}
android {
    compileSdkVersion 25
    buildToolsVersion "25.0.2"
    defaultConfig {
        applicationId "cn.sz.cyrus.kotlintest"
        minSdkVersion 14
        targetSdkVersion 25
        versionCode 1
        versionName "1.0"
        testInstrumentationRunner "android.support.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"

javaCompileOptions{
            annotationProcessorOptions{
                includeCompileClasspath = true
            }
        }
    }

buildTypes {
        release {
            minifyEnabled false
            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
        }
    }
}

dependencies {
    compile fileTree(include: ['*.jar'], dir: 'libs')
    androidTestCompile('com.android.support.test.espresso:espresso-core:2.2.2', {
        exclude group: 'com.android.support', module: 'support-annotations'
    })
    compile "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jre7:$kotlin_version"
    compile "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-reflect:$kotlin_version"
    compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:25.3.1'
    testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'
    compile 'com.android.support:design:25.3.1'
    compile 'com.android.support.constraint:constraint-layout:1.0.2'
    debugCompile 'com.squareup.leakcanary:leakcanary-android:1.5.1'
    releaseCompile 'com.squareup.leakcanary:leakcanary-android-no-op:1.5.1'
    testCompile 'com.squareup.leakcanary:leakcanary-android-no-op:1.5.1'
    compile 'com.github.GrenderG:Toasty:1.2.5'
    compile 'com.orhanobut:logger:1.15'
    compile 'io.reactivex.rxjava2:rxandroid:2.0.1'
    compile 'com.umeng.analytics:analytics:latest.integration'
    compile 'com.github.kittinunf.fuel:fuel-android:1.7.0' //for Android
    compile 'com.github.kittinunf.fuel:fuel-rxjava:1.7.0' //for RxJava support
    compile "android.arch.persistence.room:runtime:1.0.0-alpha3"
    annotationProcessor "android.arch.persistence.room:compiler:1.0.0-alpha3"
    kapt "android.arch.persistence.room:compiler:1.0.0-alpha3"
    compile "android.arch.persistence.room:rxjava2:1.0.0-alpha3" 
}

That’s my pojo class

@Entity
data class ChatMsg(var msg: String,
              var to: Int) {

companion object TO {
        val MASTER = 0
        val ROBOT = 1
    }

@PrimaryKey(autoGenerate = true)
    var id: Int = 0
    var createTime: Long = System.currentTimeMillis()
    var translMsg: String = ""
}

I googled my question, but the results didn’t seem to answer my question. Who has an idea on this issue. Thanks in advance!

Solution

The error message says exactly:

You can have an empty
constructor
or a constructor whose parameters match the fields (by name and type).

There is one thing to note. You should use Annotation Site Target will @PrimaryKey Put it in the right place.

So your entity should have an empty constructor:

@Entity
data class ChatMsg(var msg: String, var to: Int) {
    constructor() : this("", UNKNOWN);

companion object TO {
        val MASTER = 0
        val ROBOT = 1
        private val UNKNOWN = -1;  just use for initializing
    }

@field: PrimaryKey(autoGenerate = true)
    var id: Int = 0
}

OR should have a constructor that matches the field.

@Entity
data class ChatMsg(
        @field:PrimaryKey(autoGenerate = true) var id: Int, 
        var createTime: Long = System.currentTimeMillis(),
        var translMsg: String = "", 
        var msg: String, var to: Int
) {

companion object TO {
        val MASTER = 0
        val ROBOT = 1
    }

}

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