What would be the idiomatic way to do this in Kotlin? I am doing a switch on a String that has well defined values. I'd like to make sure that all these values are handled in the switch statement. I do this in several locations. In other languages, I would have created a function that converts string to some type and then switch on that type. In the "default" section of the switch statement I would have thrown some assertion to make sure all cases are handled.

Same in Kotlin, convert to an enum at the earliest possible opportunity.

alrighty, thanks Karel. I thought maybe there would be a type-safe compile-time check I take advantage of

A

sealed

class is basically a super-charged

enum

. Both offer compile-time type safety.

You could convert to instances of a sealed class too, but that's equivalent to an enum. It's not going to make the string part any easier or safer.

Thanks @karelpeeters and @Mark Murphy.

Yes. This or #getting-started, the distinction is kind of blurry