Default case class values are memoized

[jwcarvana]

zio-json is memoizing a variable's default in case classes even when the default is a method.

Here is a Scala 2 example. I'd expect each deserialization to create a unique UUID.

import zio.json._

import java.util.UUID

case class MyCaseClass(id: UUID = UUID.randomUUID, name: String)

object MyCaseClass {
  implicit val decoder: JsonDecoder[MyCaseClass] = DeriveJsonDecoder.gen[MyCaseClass]
  implicit val encoder: JsonEncoder[MyCaseClass] = DeriveJsonEncoder.gen[MyCaseClass]
}

val str = """{"name": "david"}"""

val a = str.fromJson[MyCaseClass].toOption.get
val b = str.fromJson[MyCaseClass].toOption.get
val c = str.fromJson[MyCaseClass].toOption.get

println(a) // MyCaseClass(36fd6b6a-5d9b-4939-a98a-7924d4ed259c,david)
println(b) // MyCaseClass(36fd6b6a-5d9b-4939-a98a-7924d4ed259c,david)
println(c) // MyCaseClass(36fd6b6a-5d9b-4939-a98a-7924d4ed259c,david)

val d = MyCaseClass(name = "david")
val e = MyCaseClass(name = "david")
val f = MyCaseClass(name = "david")

println(d) // MyCaseClass(9157e22f-80af-44ee-81e9-b6d0acd397e0,david)
println(e) // MyCaseClass(9a6ecb29-b02b-41d7-822d-9d4ad3865838,david)
println(f) // MyCaseClass(1027c46c-329c-44d4-b59a-a783076fd872,david)

[plokhotnyuk]

@jwcarvana Thanks for reporting!

I've just added a missing check for default value memorization in jsoniter-scala and it passes for both Scala 2 and Scala 3 versions.

Probably similar macro implementations could be used to fix the issue in zio-json, if it is not designed intentionally to support only constant values for defaults.

[jdegoes]

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🔴 @varshith257	Apr 25, 2024, 6:26:55 PM	WIP
🔴 @Andrapyre	May 2, 2024, 8:30:15 AM	#1119

[varshith257]

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[Andrapyre]

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[Andrapyre]

Side note: default parameters are not working in Scala 3 at all, unless users add the -Yretain-trees scalac option.

Given the following case class:

final case class RandomClass(
  str: String,
  uuid: UUID = UUID.randomUUID
)

And the following code in zio.json.macros.DeriveJsonDecoder.join:

def getDefaults: Array[Option[Any]] = {
  println(s"Random id: ${UUID.randomUUID().toString}")
  println(ctx.parameters.map(_.default).toArray.mkString("Array(", ", ", ")"))
  ctx.parameters.map(_.default).toArray
}

The first logged id is different every time a string is decoded into a RandomClass, while the second id is the same. E.g. this issue comes from Magnolia. It can be fixed in several ways:

1. A PR into Magnolia. I'm not sure that this fits with their design and would likely involve a change breaking binary compat.
2. A change in zio-json involving an annotation such as fieldDefaultValue, like there is in zio-schema. Currently all annotations in zio-json relate to field names, not to values. Is this by design?
3. No code change - add documentation explaining how to work with default parameters generally (including how to deal with defaults in Scala 3), as well as a workaround if users want to have dynamic default values.

I would tend towards 3 - serialization with random generators isn't referentially transparent and I would lean towards keeping the two separate and doing random generation as part of an effect, serializing the case class with a default null value, and then copying the randomly generated value over. If there are performance considerations, then the following should suffice:

final case class RandomClass(
  str: String,
  @jsonField("id")
  private val initialId: UUID = null
) {
  val id: UUID = if (initialId == null) {
    UUID.randomUUID()
  } else {
    initialId
  }
}

@jdegoes , any preferences here?

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