Default values for new properties

Im using ObjectBox in a pet android project written in Kotlin.. I have a data class encoded as such (example):

@Entity data class Foo(var name:String, var description: String) {
    constructor() : this("", "") // parameter-less constructor
    @Id var id: Long = 0L
    // other stuff
}

Database already existed on the device.. I added an additional property to the Foo class (not in the data constructor):

@Entity data class Foo(var name:String, var description: String) {
    constructor() : this("", "") // parameter-less constructor
    @Id var id: Long = 0L
    var bar: String = ""
    // other stuff
}

defaulted, non-null object bar.. however when pulling existing records from the stored box, that value bar appears to be null.. I would expect it to be a blank string (default for the parameter); is the violation of not-null guarantee coming from the Java interop?

I fixed the issue by nuking the database; afterwords the entity created and stored is not-null.. But this brings up any possible future updates that may violate this.

Is there a "database upgrade" method for updating already stored objects between versions, adding default values to new properties, or am I resigned to make anything added to an existing model be nullable (and handle it as such)?

La issue fornisce un’entità Foo in Kotlin e descrive record esistenti in un database ObjectBox, ma non indica file del repository né test. Inizia riproducendo il comportamento dopo aver aggiunto bar a Foo, quindi esamina la migrazione dell’entità e i percorsi di caricamento dei record esistenti. Il lavoro è completato quando è stato stabilito come le nuove proprietà non nullable ricevono valori predefiniti per i record memorizzati, con copertura dei test o documentazione per gli aggiornamenti futuri.