Anyone know a way to remove `@JvmField` from a fie...

# library-development

[Matt Nelson]

Anyone know a way to remove @JvmField from a field without breaking the API?

e.g.

public class Thing internal constructor(
    @JvmField
    public val before: String,
)

public class Thing internal constructor(
    @JvmField
    public val after: ByteArray,
) {

    // Want to remove JvmField and replace with lazy
    public val before: String by lazy { after.decodeToString() }
}

[mbonnin]

I don't think you can? A JVM field has no code attached to it. Closests you could do is initialize it at the same time as the class but that defeats the lazy

[Matt Nelson]

Dang... I think I can get away with using expect/actual and turn it into a getter for non-Jvm, but would really like it to be for all targets sad panda