is it possible to access a property or function by...

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[hagabaka]

is it possible to access a property or function by string containing its name at run time, like in JavaScript?

[karelpeeters]

Do you mean in Kotlin-JS? If so take a look at js(...). There's also the reflection API, https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/reflection.html

[hagabaka]

I'm developing for Android

[karelpeeters]

Then reflection should work. Beware that "finding a function by name at runtime" is often a sign of bad design.

[hagabaka]

how do you use reflection to do that? I see that you can get references to properties and functions, but it doesn't show a way to use a string to specify their names

[karelpeeters]

You'd loop over all of the functions of a class and check for a name match.

[hagabaka]

how do you get a list of functions of a class?

[karelpeeters]

https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin.reflect.full/functions.html

[hagabaka]

all right, thanks!