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Is there any Kotlinian way to :

```class Dog(val name: String, val age: Int, val owner:Owner = Owner.Jhon)```
Then I have another class that creates that Dog as :

```fun getOwner() : Owner {
 return if (something is true) Owner.Peter else Owner.Jhon
}```
And this is what I'd like to improve, I see that I have this `Owner.Jhon`  duplicated, because is default value already is there any way to avoid this Owner.Jhon from getOwner?

You can extract default owner to companion object and use it both places

You write *Then I have another class that creates that Dog as :* but what follows is a function that creates an Owner, so I’m a bit confused. What I can say is that `getOwner` only contains a single expression, so you should do the single-line version:
```fun getOwner() : Owner = if (something is true) Owner.Peter else Owner.Jhon```
you can even drop the `: Owner` return-type if you want.
Another thing is that I normally don’t see Java-type `getSomething` functions since you can define a more koliny dynamic `something` -property:
```val owner: Owner
  get() = if (something is true) Owner.Peter else Owner.Jhon```
if the value is only initialized once, you could of course change it to a traditional property:
```val owner: Owner = if (something is true) Owner.Peter else Owner.Jhon```
.
`getOwner` isn’t a method of `Dog`, is it? Because you can already access the owner property of dog directly (since it’s not private).
```val dogOwner = dog.owner```