I am trying to have a field of a class that can ge...

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I am trying to have a field of a class that can get publicly, but only set privately.
I know the following works:

class Test2 constructor(val id:Long,i_description:String){
    var description = i_description
        private set
}

I was hoping to find a way without having 2 different fields. Something a bit more like class Test1 constructor(val id:Long,var description:String private set), which doesn't work.
Is 2 fields the only way?