How to save LiveData into saveStateHandle?

Question

As shown in https://stackoverflow.com/a/61166665/3286489, we could save LiveData in savedStateHandle.

I could do that easily https://stackoverflow.com/a/61166665/3286489

private val textLiveData: MutableLiveData<String>

init {
    textLiveData = savedStateHandle.getLiveData(KEY)
}

However, when trying to save it as below,

savedStateHandle.set(KEY, textLiveData)

I got the error

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Can't put value with type class androidx.lifecycle.SavedStateHandle$SavingStateLiveData into saved state

Where did I get it wrong?

Answer 1

Apparently the better answer is, we don't even need to

savedStateHandle.set(KEY, textLiveData.value)

While that is permissible, when we one do set

textLiveData.value = "Some data"

This already saved to the state. As textLiveData is retrieved from savedStateHandle as below.

textLiveData = savedStateHandle.getLiveData(KEY) 

Hence the textLiveData is already stored within the savedStateHandle, and changes to textLiveData.value is inadvertently get saved in savedStateHandle.