how do i create data objects in kotlin similarly t...

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[Willy Njundong]

how do i create data objects in kotlin similarly to what i could do with javascript:

const myObject = {
  someKey: someValue,
  someOtherKey: [{foo: "bar"}, {bar: "foo"}]
}

[Casey Brooks]

You can create anonymous objects, but they are only available in the local scope (can’t pass them outside of the function they’re declared in) (https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/object-declarations.html#object-expressions). The only other way to get something like that is with the mapOf() function:

val myObject = mapOf(
  "someKey" to someValue,
  "someOtherKey" to listOf(mapOf("foo" to "bar"), mapOf("bar" to "foo"))
)

[Mike]

Or you can use a full-blown data class of course.