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How to define a internal `var` property that only its `get` is `PublishedApi`?

It’s a field-like property. Get and set just delegate to the backing field.

Have you tried the syntax `@get:PublishedApi`  to annotate only the getter?

Otherwise have a public val that delegates to a private var.

But that would be quite different, the getter would be more visible than a published internal and the setter less visible than an internal

Ok, I might have misinterpreted "published api".
Well then a published api internal val delegating to a non-published api internal var.
But if just annotating the getter works, then of course that, you just didn't sound confident that it *will* work, just that it maybe could work. :slightly_smiling_face:

&gt; Well then a published api internal val delegating to a non-published api internal var
Yep, that makes sense if the annotation is not supported on the getter only

&gt; you just didn't sound confident that it *will* work
Yeah I'm not confident because I never played with `@PublishedApi` directly, so I prefer to write with caution :slightly_smiling_face: but I see no reason why it shouldn't work

I rewrote it into a `@PublishedApi` function that returns the value of a private var. Thanks for the answers.

Did annotating the getter not work?

```@get:PublishedApi
internal var x: Int = 42```
Or did you just prefer with a function?

So basically my initial suggestion with added boilerplate :smile:

I just preferred. I might test that later.