My use case is: I have a singleton (kotlin object) and I would like to have a method

disconnect

that I could call from anywhere. Disconnect would check if

isConnected

and if not, will just do nothing. But the thing is, right now, if disconnect is the first method to be called on that object, it will call

init

before calling disconnect...and my init calls

connect()

on the object. So that's a bit counterproductive to connect then disconnect right after.

maybe companion objects?

Can you have a companion object inside an object?

the problem is how to reference the method then

I just tested and I don't think an object can hold a companion object. I did test an inner object, but it will still call init. Don't think it's possible indeed.

Dont you want to call

connect()

in some other method than

init

?

That's what I ended up doing! It also make sense. 🙂