Working with data classes

In Kotlin, it's recommended to use data classes as the representation for your entities. In our case, we did not use data classes since we extended a common class containing the attributes shared between the Note and Todo classes.

We recommend the use of data classes since it can significantly simplify your work routine, especially if you are using these entities in backend communication.

It's not rare that we have a need for classes that have only one purpose--holding the data. The benefit of using data classes is that some functionality that is often used along with its purpose is automatically provided. As you probably already know how to define a data class, you have to do something like this:

 data class Entity(val ...

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