is there a reflective way to copy A to B in kotlin...
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xenoterracide
04/08/2019, 6:28 PMis there a reflective way to copy A to B in kotlin (where A and B are different instances of different classes but share the same attributes)
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dalexander
04/08/2019, 6:29 PMYou could use java.lang.reflect.* to do that, but I recommend just assigning the attributes manually unless there are a lot of them for some reason.
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xenoterracide
04/08/2019, 6:32 PMyeah, wasn’t sure if maybe kotlin had something similar to a ReflecionUtils.copyProperties. I probably should just do it by hand.
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Burkhard
04/08/2019, 6:44 PMAlso doing something like this with reflection can easily break if one property of a class is renamed, leading to very obscure bugs
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xenoterracide
04/09/2019, 3:27 PMyes, I know, I’ve had something like this break before when spring changed its implementation. ah well looks like idea was able to generate a constructor call for me somehow… I only wish it could generate all the setter calls for me.
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