:thread: Hey y’all, I’d like to have some dynamic...
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Jilles Soeters
09/27/2021, 10:40 PM🧵 Hey y’all, I’d like to have some dynamic property access with 2 data classes. I imagine this requires some generics but I am not quite sure how to do this in Kotlin. I have an example here https://gist.github.com/jillesme/d1e1af0e0f56f8b5e02d27f9bc17afa5
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Joffrey
09/27/2021, 10:42 PMCould you please explain what you're trying to achieve here? (with the actual use case)
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Jilles Soeters
09/27/2021, 10:44 PMI have 2 objects. If one key is present in object 2, I want to set the value to that. Otherwise use the value of object 1
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Joffrey
09/27/2021, 10:46 PMBut what do you mean by a key being present? What are the types of those objects? Are you looking for a reflection-based approach to this?
Joffrey
09/27/2021, 10:47 PMIt seems to me that using maps might be more appropriate in this case, but you didn't explain your actual use case (what you use this for) so it's hard to tell
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CLOVIS
09/29/2021, 6:01 AMobject2.value ?: object1.valuej
Joffrey
09/29/2021, 8:53 AMIf "being present" is about being non-null for objects of the same class, elvis would definitely be the way to go. But I have a feeling that the op is using different classes that may or may not have a given property (at all)