Delegated properties
Kotlin enhances the concept of properties to promote code reuse and make the developer coding task easier. There are many repetitive code snippets you and I could write. Ideally, we should have the following functionality out-of-the-box:
- A property value should be computed lazily on its first ever access.
- Notify the listeners of a change to one of the values of properties. Have you ever coded in C#? If yes, I am sure the
INotifyPropertyChangeinterface will come to mind. - Use a map to store your fields rather than a materialized field.
Well, good news! Kotlin's delegate properties support all of these. We deal quite often with types for which we need an identifier:
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