So, i'm pretty new to kotlin and still learning stuff, I have a data class named Country with 4 parameters
County(name:String, policePhone:String, ambulancePhone:String,
firebrigadePhone:String)
, a listOf Country with 27 objects in it and a var nameC1 taken from the MainActivity.
I've called the list method forEach and I want to confront every name in the list with the variable nameC and when a match is found execute some code.
data class Country(val name: String, val police:String, val ambulance:String,val firefighter:String) {
}
var nameC1 = (activity as MainActivity).nameC
val numberList= listOf<Country>(
Country("Austria","133","144","122"),
Country("Belgium","101","100","100"),
Country("Bulgaria","166","150","160"),
Country("Croatia","192","194","193"),
Country("Cyprus","199","199","199"),
Country("Czech Republic","158","155","150"),
Country("Denmark","112","112","112"),
Country("Estonia","112","112","112"),
Country("Finland","112","112","112"),
Country("France","17","15","18"),
Country("Germany","110","112","112"),
Country("Greece","100","166","199"),
Country("Hungary","107","104","105"),
Country("Ireland","112","112","112"),
Country("Italy","113","118","115"),
Country("Latvia","112","112","112"),
Country("Lithuania","02","03","01"),
Country("Luxembourg","113","112","112"),
Country("Malta","112","112","112"),
Country("Netherlands","112","112","112"),
Country("Poland","997","999","998"),
Country("Portugal","112","112","112"),
Country("Romania","112","112","112"),
Country("Slovakia","158","155","150"),
Country("Slovenia","113","112","112"),
Country("Spain","092","061","080"),
Country("Sweden","112","112","112")
)
numberList.forEach { if (Country.name==nameC1 ) }
// i'm expecting String1==String2 but i'm
//stuck here because it says name is an unresolved reference
}
I'd use a getName() but i know in kotlin getter/setter are automated ( I'm not used to it) and ihaven't found anything useful on the kotlin doc. site,
I've seen on this site that someone suggested to implement Kotlin-reflection but I don't understand how I'm not supposed to get a parameter from a class by default.
forEach creates a lambda for each of the element in the collection. The default name for the element inside the lambda is it. But you can rename it to something else too. Refer to the doc
Here is a working example of your code
data class Country(val name: String, val police:String, val ambulance:String,val firefighter:String)
fun doThis(nameC1: String) {
val numberList= listOf<Country>(
Country("Austria","133","144","122"),
Country("Belgium","101","100","100"),
Country("Bulgaria","166","150","160"),
Country("Croatia","192","194","193"),
Country("Cyprus","199","199","199"),
Country("Czech Republic","158","155","150"),
Country("Denmark","112","112","112"),
Country("Estonia","112","112","112"),
Country("Finland","112","112","112"),
Country("France","17","15","18"),
Country("Germany","110","112","112"),
Country("Greece","100","166","199"),
Country("Hungary","107","104","105"),
Country("Ireland","112","112","112"),
Country("Italy","113","118","115"),
Country("Latvia","112","112","112"),
Country("Lithuania","02","03","01"),
Country("Luxembourg","113","112","112"),
Country("Malta","112","112","112"),
Country("Netherlands","112","112","112"),
Country("Poland","997","999","998"),
Country("Portugal","112","112","112"),
Country("Romania","112","112","112"),
Country("Slovakia","158","155","150"),
Country("Slovenia","113","112","112"),
Country("Spain","092","061","080"),
Country("Sweden","112","112","112") )
numberList.forEach {
if (it.name == nameC1) {
println("Match")
}
}
}
fun main() {
doThis("Slovenia")
}
Try it for yourself on play.kotlinlang.org - Link
The above code will execute the println function when the condition is true.
In the forEach loop you have to use it to access the name parameter.
like this
numberList.forEach { if (it.name==nameC1 )}
Try with the following code. You can apply filter on list
//if you want iterate your list try with below code
numberList.forEach {
val name = it.name
val police = it.police
}
//If you want apply filter on list take reference from below code
private var countryList: ArrayList<Country> = arrayListOf(
Country("Austria", "133", "144", "122"),
Country("Belgium", "101", "100", "100")
)
val searchList = countryList.filter { country-> country.name == nameC1}
Well, I've a situation, where in Class A I get "X DATA".
I want to store this "X DATA" in Object X one time and then make sure, the values of this object is not possible to change. (Set it once and forget about it).
My approach:
object X {
var attribute1: String
var attribute2: String
}
Obviously, as object attributes are var they are changeable in future. How could I avoid this? Is there a way to assign values (in some time..) and then lock the object till application is exited?
You could use a delegate property
class MyProperty<T : Any> {
private var value: T? = null
operator fun getValue(myObject: MyObject, property: KProperty<*>): T =
value ?: throw UninitializedPropertyAccessException()
operator fun setValue(thisRef: Any?, property: KProperty<*>, value: T) = when (this.value) {
null -> this.value = value
else -> throw IllegalAccessException("Property already initialized")
}
}
and then use var in your object
object MyObject {
var myProperty by MyProperty<String>()
}
In the sample above, if you try to access myProperty before setting a value, an exception is thrown, but you could handle that as you wish (return a default value? maybe null?).
If you try to assign the value more than once, you get an exception as well but you could handle that differently, for instance, by simply not setting the value anymore so that
MyObject.myProperty = "foo"
MyObject.myProperty = "bar"
println(MyObject.myProperty)
will print "foo"
You can use lateinit var attribute1: String to tell the compiler that you will manage setting attribute1 to a non-null value before it's used.
There's no such thing as lateinit val to "lock" the value as you say.
The docs have more information.
I suggest you make those properties final by replacing var with val.
var is like general variable and its known as a mutable variable in kotlin and can be assigned multiple times.
val is like constant variable and its known as immutable in kotlin and can be initialized only single time.
You can't lateinit immutable properties in kotlin and lateinit var does not allow custom setters.
So my approach would be implementing the lateinit var behavior with a backing property, custom getter and custom setter. This is quite a similar approach to lellomans solution.
object X {
private lateinit var backingprop: String
var attribute: String
set(arg) {
if (this::backingprop.isInitialized) throw IllegalAccessException("Property already initialized")
backingprop = arg
}
get() = backingprop
}
I warn you! But you can use such example:
object Immutable {
val immutableString: String = mutableStaticString ?: "some default value, just in case"
}
var mutableStaticString: String? = null
class App : Application() {
override fun onCreate() {
super.onCreate()
mutableStaticString = "hello duct tape solutions!"
android.util.Log.d("ductTape", mutableStaticString)
android.util.Log.d("ductTape", Immutable.immutableString)
}
}
I'm learning the sample code about Anko at Kotlin for Android Developers (the book) https://github.com/antoniolg/Kotlin-for-Android-Developers
The Method 1 is from sample code and override parseList ,but it's hard to understand.
So I try to use the Method 2 instead of the Method 1, the Method 2 use original parseList function, but I get blank record when I use the Method 2, what error do I made in the Method 2
class DayForecast(var map: MutableMap<String, Any?>) {
var _id: Long by map
var date: Long by map
var description: String by map
var high: Int by map
var low: Int by map
var iconUrl: String by map
var cityId: Long by map
constructor(date: Long, description: String, high: Int, low: Int,
iconUrl: String, cityId: Long) : this(HashMap()) {
this.date = date
this.description = description
this.high = high
this.low = low
this.iconUrl = iconUrl
this.cityId = cityId
}
}
Method 1
override fun requestForecastByZipCode(zipCode: Long, date: Long) =
forecastDbHelper.use {
val dailyRequest = "${DayForecastTable.CITY_ID} = ? AND ${DayForecastTable.DATE} >= ?"
val dailyForecast = select(DayForecastTable.NAME)
.whereSimple(dailyRequest, zipCode.toString(), date.toString())
.parseList { DayForecast(HashMap(it)) }
/* common code block */
}
fun <T : Any> SelectQueryBuilder.parseList(parser: (Map<String, Any?>) -> T):
List<T> = parseList(object : MapRowParser<T> {
override fun parseRow(columns: Map<String, Any?>): T = parser(columns)
})
Method 2
override fun requestForecastByZipCode(zipCode: Long, date: Long) =
forecastDbHelper.use {
val dailyRequest = "${DayForecastTable.CITY_ID} = ? AND ${DayForecastTable.DATE} >= ?"
val dailyForecast = select(DayForecastTable.NAME)
.whereSimple(dailyRequest, zipCode.toString(), date.toString())
.exec { parseList(classParser<DayForecast>()) }
/* common code block */
}
I really do think you should stick to using the 'method 1' approach, it's a lot easier once you realise what Kotlin is letting you do. As I don't know how much you know about Kotlin, I'll try to cover this completely.
The existing class SelectQueryBuilder has (I presume) a function called parseList, that existing function takes a MapRowParser<T>. The MapRowParser<T> has a function parseRow that takes a Map<String, Any?> and returns a T.
In the old Java way of working, you would derive from MapRowParser<T> and would override parseRow so that it does the conversion you want; converting the Map<String, Any?> into a DayForecast (the generic T would now have a type). An instance of this derived class is passed into the existing parseList function. Your derived class would look something like
class MapToDayForecastRowParser extends MapRowParser<DayForecast> {
#Override public DayForecast parseRow(Map<String, Object> map) {
// Note that Java's "Object" is more or less Kotlin's "Any?"
return new DayForecast(map); // Might need to convert the map type btw
}
}
The extension method is making it really easy to wrap/hide/abstract that creation of the derived class. The extension method take a lambda, that is, you have to parse into the new parseList method a block of code that takes a Map<String, Any?> and returns T (this is what DayForecast(HashMap(it)) is doing, the it is an automatically named variable that is the Map. The extension method then calls the existing parseList method, parsing in an anonymous class that it creates itself. That means that ever use of this extension method creates a new anonymous class, but the Kotlin compiler handles this very well.
One part that did confuse me at first is the way Kotlin handles the anonymous class.
// Java
new MapRowParser<T>() {
#Override public T parseRow(Map<String, Object>) {
/* Map to T logic */
}
}
// Kotlin
object : MapRowParser<T> {
override fun parseRow(columns: Map<String, Any?>): T = parser(columns)
}
Kotlin also makes it very easy to handle the 'lambda'. It is parsed into the extension method as parser and then set as the implementation of our anonymous class parseRow function. You can also reuse them if you so wished, your so if you need to do the same sort of parsing in lots of places, you can use a named function instead.
The great advantage to this new Kotlin way is that it's very easy focus on what you want to do. With that extension method in place, it's very quick to re-use it so that in another query you can do parseList{ it.getOrDefault("name", "unkown_user") }. You can now easily work on just thinking "If each row is a map, how do I convert that down to a value I want?".
Right code:
class MainActHandler(val weakActivity: WeakReference<Activity>): Handler() {
override fun handleMessage(msg: Message?) {
val trueAct = weakActivity.get() ?: return
if (msg?.what == ConversationMgr.MSG_WHAT_NEW_SENTENCE){
val sentence = msg.obj as String?
trueAct.conversation.text = sentence
}
super.handleMessage(msg)
}
}
cannot be resolved code:
class MainActHandler(weakActivity: WeakReference<Activity>): Handler() {
override fun handleMessage(msg: Message?) {
val trueAct = weakActivity.get() ?: return
if (msg?.what == ConversationMgr.MSG_WHAT_NEW_SENTENCE){
val sentence = msg.obj as String?
trueAct.conversation.text = sentence
}
super.handleMessage(msg)
}
}
cannot be resolved code screenshot
The only difference is the "val" has been deleted and cannot be resolve.
Which might be important is that it's a inner class.
BUT
This one class without "val/var" in constructor parameter is working:
class BookInfo(convrMgr: ConversationMgr, id: String, queue: RequestQueue, queueTag:String) {
val TAG = "BookInfo"
var title: String? = ""
init {
val url = "https://api.douban.com/v2/book/$id"
// Request a string response from the provided URL.
val stringRequest = StringRequest(Request.Method.GET, url,
Response.Listener<String> { response ->
Log.d(TAG + " Response", response.substring(0))
// Parse JSON from String value
val parser = Parser()
val jsonObj: JsonObject =
parser.parse(StringBuilder(response.substring(0))) as JsonObject
// Initial book title of book properties.
title = jsonObj.string("title")
Log.d(TAG + " Book title", title)
convrMgr.addNewMsg(title)
},
Response.ErrorListener { error -> Log.e(TAG + " Error", error.toString()) })
// Set the tag on the request.
stringRequest.tag = queueTag
// Add the request to the RequestQueue.
queue.add(stringRequest)
}
}
And if I add var/val before "queue: RequestQueue", I'll get suggestion:
"Constructor parameter is never used as a property less. This inspection reports primary constructor parameters that can have 'val' or 'var' removed. Unnecessary usage of 'val' and 'var' in primary constructor consumes unnecessary memory."
I am just confused about it.
When you write val/var within the constructor, it declares a property inside the class. When you do not write it, it is simply a parameter passed to the primary constructor, where you can access the parameters within the init block or use it to initialize other properties. For example,
class User(val id: Long, email: String) {
val hasEmail = email.isNotBlank() //email can be accessed here
init {
//email can be accessed here
}
fun getEmail(){
//email can't be accessed here
}
}
Constructor parameter is never used as a property
This suggestion is saying that you do not use this property in place apart from the initialization. So, it suggests you to remove this property from the class.
Constructor parameters must use var or val when they are used as a property elsewhere in the class. They do not need to be properties if they are only used for class initialization.
In the example below, the parameter must be a property (var or val) because it is used in a method:
class A(val number: Int) {
fun foo() = number
}
In this other example, the parameter is only used to initialize the class, so it does not need to be a property:
class B(number: Int): A(number) {
init {
System.out.println("number: $number")
}
}
This might be a late answer but the magic lies under the hood:
Based on #BakaWaii's answer:
Putting var/val will make the variable a property of the class and not putting it will make it a parameter of only the constructor function.
So what does it mean, to understand lets look into some code:
class Test(a: Int){}
Now Lets see the decompiled java code:
public final class Test {
public Test(int a) {
}
}
So now if I try to access a using the object of Test() like the below code:
Test t = new Test(10);
t.a //Error
It will give me error. Unresolved reference: a. Why because a is a parameter of the constructor only.
Now if we put var/val in the paramater like below:
class Test(var a: Int){}
The decompliked Java code will become:
public final class Test {
private int a;
public final int getA() {
return this.a;
}
public final void setA(int var1) {
this.a = var1;
}
public Test(int a) {
this.a = a;
}
}
Thus it will not only give you a class property but also give you getter/setters for setting the values.
Now the next question arises if the field a is private how can it be accessed. Simple answer in Java you cannot, i.e. if you are calling the KT class from a Java you will not be able to assign value of a like Test(1).a = 10 but will have to use Test(1).setA(5).
But as kotlin internally handles getters/setters Test(1).a = 5 will be ok.
For #Parcelize to work you need to open up the super's properties and override them in the child:
abstract class Goal(open var number: Int, open var name: String) : Parcelable
#Parcelize
class OperationalGoal(override var number: Int, override var name: String, var description: String) : Goal(number, name)```
In very simple terms, use var or val in class constructor parameters when you want to use that variable, say, inside a method within that class. Thus you're effectively turning them into properties and not just mere constructor or method parameters.
class User(var name: String, age: Int) {
var str = "John"
var num = 18
fun setName(){
name = str // due to using var on our class constructor parameter, we can access the constructor variable *name* inside this setter method. *name* is a property parameter thanks to the var keyword.
}
fun setAge(){
age = num // this will result in a compiler error, because *age* is just a parameter, notice that var wasn't used in the *age* parameter within the class constructor, which means we can't access it like we did with *name*
}
}
Run this Kotlin Playground code to get a clearer idea of what's going on.