Hi there. I have a lot of ids across my android app, which are just strings. Would it be a good prac...

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[ubu]

Hi there. I have a lot of ids across my android app, which are just strings. Would it be a good practice to use typealias in the following manner:

typealias Id = String

Thanks!

[robstoll]

in case the id is for a type then I would suggest you use an inline class with a type parameter, something like:

inline class Id<T>(val value: String)

[thanksforallthefish]

unfortunately, depending of the context, inline classes could not be usable. for instance: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/issues/21998

we currently do as you are asking @ubu but personally I don’t find it too useful, as fun get(id: Id) would accept any String and any other String typealiased anyway.

If you can, I would also suggest inline classes

[ubu]

thanks!