Sorry new to all of this but is there a way to wrap and extend a data class. Say if I had a data cla...

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[Wesley Acheson]

Sorry new to all of this but is there a way to wrap and extend a data class. Say if I had a data class Summary and I wanted to create a data class SummaryCalculation that had all the fields of Summary but had new field also.

data class Summary(val aProperty:String, val items:List<BillableItem>)

//This I don't know
data class BillingSummary(initialSummary:Summary, totalItemsBilled:Long):Summary

It doesn't actually need to share an equals/hashcode, just expose the same api. I'm more or less trying to create an envelope that holds addition properties. that can be created from the initial object.

[diesieben07]

You can share a common interface between the two:

interface Summary {
    val aProperty: String
}

data class SummaryData(override val aProperty: String) : Summary

data class BillingSummary(val initialSummary: Summary, val totalItemsBilled: Long) : Summary by initialSummary

[Wesley Acheson]

Thank you I think that should work. Not familiar with the by initalSummary syntax.

[diesieben07]

It implements the interface by delegating all functions / properties to the implementation you give it.

[Matteo Mirk]

@wes to understand that syntax read about delegation: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/tutorials/kotlin-for-py/inheritance.html#delegation

[Wesley Acheson]

@Matteo Mirk Thanks