Programming Kotlin

Injecting Using Extension Functions and Properties

From the readability and ease points of view, having application-specific convenience methods on third-party classes will make the lives of your fellow programmers better. And, that’s possible because Kotlin permits you to inject methods and properties into any class, including classes written in other JVM languages. Unlike other languages that offer metaprogramming, Kotlin performs injection without patching the runtime or class loading. In Kotlin, classes are open for extension, even though they may not be available for inheritance. Extension functions and extension properties are techniques to add methods and properties, but without altering the bytecode of the targeted classes. When you ...