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

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[Jason5lee]

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

[Jason5lee]

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

[Joffrey]

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

[Vampire]

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

[Joffrey]

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

[Vampire]

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. 🙂

[Joffrey]

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

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 🙂 but I see no reason why it shouldn't work

[Jason5lee]

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

[Joffrey]

Did annotating the getter not work?

@get:PublishedApi
internal var x: Int = 42

Or did you just prefer with a function?

[Vampire]

So basically my initial suggestion with added boilerplate 😄

[Jason5lee]

I just preferred. I might test that later.