any way to get intermediate types in a method chain? (i.e., this)

# intellij

[Andrew Gazelka]

any way to get intermediate types in a method chain? (i.e., this)

[samneirinck]

Is it View> Type Info you’re after?

[Andrew Gazelka]

oh yeah that works. thanks

[Mike]

And at least while developing, I find it useful to put new-lines after {. If you have type hints turned on, IntelliJ will draw the types.

Then quickly apply join line when I’m done. Only expand lines I want to know type for.

[louiscad]

You can use IDE intention to specify the type of the lambda parameter (defaulting to it) explicitly.

[Matej Drobnič]

I must be going blind, can't find Type Info here

[Andrew Gazelka]

@Matej Kormuth perhaps it is not on Windows/Linux (whatever you are using) on MacOS it is right below Parameter Info

[arekolek]

For me it’s “Expression Type”

[Andrew Gazelka]

that's interesting that there is that variation cross-platform imo

[arekolek]

Although I’m not sure if it’s the same thing because you mentioned “(i.e., this)” and Expression Type can’t be used for implicit this (but it can for explicit this)

[Andrew Gazelka]

oh I didn't mean programming this

[Andrew Gazelka]

I was just referring to the image

[Matej Drobnič]

Parameter info is actually not that useful in some cases

[Andrew Gazelka]

@Matej Drobnič it appeared to be for me. Why don't you think so?

[Matej Drobnič]

For example on emptyList<Int>().map { it * 20 } code snippet

[Matej Drobnič]

it just displays transform (T) -> R which is pretty much useless (I want to know WHAT exact type are T and R here)

[Andrew Gazelka]

it does not do this for me

[Matej Drobnič]

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[Andrew Gazelka]

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[Andrew Gazelka]

oh wait read you wrong

[Andrew Gazelka]

yeah Parameter Info is not very helpful

[Matej Drobnič]

ah I see

[Matej Drobnič]

you were using expression info

[Andrew Gazelka]

mhm

[Andrew Gazelka]

well Type Info

[Matej Drobnič]

Type Info right

[Matej Drobnič]

wait

[Matej Drobnič]

Type Info now shows up for me in the menu 😄

[Matej Drobnič]

I have no idea what is going on

[Andrew Gazelka]

hmm weird

[Andrew Gazelka]

did you update IntelliJ?

[Matej Drobnič]

maybe my IntelliJ installation is broken somehow (I have checked in IntelliJ previously, now I'm testing in Android Studio)

[Andrew Gazelka]

btw you on Linux or Windows

[Andrew Gazelka]

out of curiousity

[Matej Drobnič]

Windows

[Andrew Gazelka]

yeah weird