```class SomeClass { private InnerClass innerC...

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[muralimohan962]

class SomeClass {
    private InnerClass innerClass = new InnerClass();

void foo() {
    String name = innerClass.name;
}

private static class InnerClass {
        private String name = "Murali";
}
}

When i convert this code into kotlin using kotlin converter in IDEA i got an error at innerClass.name showing the name is private. But that works fine in Java. Please show me how to achieve the same in kotlin!

[Pavlo Liapota]

Surround your code with triple backticks, please.

[muralimohan962]

I did it @Pavlo Liapota! Thanks!

[APXEOLOG]

What is the conversion result?

[gildor]

This code is incorrect. You forgot } and it’s not clear where this } should be, before foo, before InnerClass or on the end

[gildor]

also the is no keyword class before InnerClass

[gildor]

so in general this code is wrong, so try to fix it first in java and than convert to Kotlin

[gildor]

But I see what you mean, if you have this original code:

class SomeClass {
    private InnerClass innerClass = new InnerClass();

    void foo() {
        String name = innerClass.name;
    }

    private static class InnerClass {
        private String name = "Murali";
    }
}

it will not work in Kotlin, because Kotlin doesn’t generate accessor for private field name
As workaround just make it non-private. Class already private so can be used only by SomeClass, so it doesn’t break encapsulation in this case

[muralimohan962]

I edited it @gildor! Actually it was a typing error! But yeah the code in java was fine and when i converted it( it was syntactically correct) i got error at property access!

[muralimohan962]

Thanks @gildor!