Mastering Kotlin

Working with properties

You might have noticed that, in the previous example, we were able to access the newly added title property without having added a getter. This is possible because Kotlin will generate getters and setters for us for properties with simple accessor logic. Let's look more closely at the following code:

In this snippet, we have our Course class with a public title property:

class Course(courseTitle: String) {    val title = courseTitle}

From Kotlin, we can access that property name directly, as follows:

val courseTitle = course.title

However, from Java, we must access that property using a generated getter:

String courseTitle = course.getTitle();

From Kotlin, we can access the property by referencing its name directly without ...