Hello, how can I access the property name in a del...

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[Marcin Wisniowski]

Hello, how can I access the property name in a delegate? I have val foo by MyDelegate() , I want to get the string "foo" in the init block of MyDelegate. How would I go about that?

[Adam Powell]

Normally you get a reference to the property (and its name) as part of the get and set calls, which allows the delegate object itself to be more stateless. If you need to know it at construction time you can use a delegate provider instead, which can then often be the stateless/reusable/constant object. https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/delegated-properties.html

[Marcin Wisniowski]

I got it working with a delegate provider, thank you!

[Matteo Mirk]

This is a very cool feature I didn’t know about! Thanks @Adam Powell