I’ve been searching. Is there a way to determine i...

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[spragg]

I’ve been searching. Is there a way to determine if a lateinit var is initialised without using it and catching the exception? or am I going to have to change it to a nullable ?

[karelpeeters]

If you need that lateinit is not really the right tool anymore, just use a nullable instead.

[spragg]

Yep. That is what I am thinking. The situation is that I have a fragment with a webview and I need to load the webview only when it becomes visible. Unfortunately the best place for me to do that is in setUserVisibleHint but that is getting triggered before onCreateView. Thanks for the reply

[russhwolf]

I'd generally agree that you shouldn't be using lateinit for this, especially in your case because you're initializing in a somewhat unusual location. But see also https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-9327 if you do want the ability to check initialization of lateinit properties.

[Dalinar]

personally I wouldn't mind having this ability, I don't need it very often but would be nice

[Dalinar]

but what I do need more often but apparently jetbrains thinks it is a rare-use scenario (so not likely to happen I guess), is the ability to access a this@lambda. You can still work around it but it's a bit "ugly" - I really needed often in my JS code but in regular JVM Kotlin I also run into it once in a while