Hi all, very general Kotlin question here. Is the...

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[Twferrell]

Hi all, very general Kotlin question here. Is there a way to access a property of a context object when using when clause? For example let's say I have someObj reference which has a string property of propOfSomeObj.


when (someObj) {
::propOfSomeObj.isBlank() -> ...

}

[Twferrell]

@Ruckus, gotcha. Thanks very much for your reply. Really appreciate it!

[Sam Garfinkel]

Actually you sort of can. You can assign the context to a val. This is valid:

when(val it = someObj) {
  it.propOfSomeObj.isBlank() -> 
}

However it does add some verbosity. I agree it would be nice for the context to be bound to some default name

[Sam Garfinkel]

Oh crap, yeah, you’re right. I should not code after midnight 😉