Hello everyone! How to use property from object? Code in :thread:

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[Sanendak]

Hello everyone! How to use property from object? Code in 🧵

[Sanendak]

I have

object ExampleObject {
    
    val objectInObject = object {
        val number = 1
    }
}

and I cannot get number. In example this not working

val test = ExampleObject.objectInObject.number

[Akshat Sharma]

Not sure this can help I created this object

class GlobalVals {
    companion object {
        var numOfTimes: Int = 0
        fun incNumOfTimes(){
            numOfTimes = numOfTimes.inc()
        }
    }
}

Then i used them like this in main()

GlobalVals.incNumOfTimes()

[Sanendak]

Thanks, @Akshat Sharma! But this isn't the solution I'm looking for.

[CLOVIS]

You can do:

object ExampleObject {
  object ObjectInObject {
    val number = 1
  }
}

Why do you want to put objects inside objects?

[CLOVIS]

What's the error in your version?

[Sanendak]

Yes, that's it! Thanks, @CLOVIS. I do this for nested navigation in my app

[satyarth]

.

[CLOVIS]

I don't think you can use () on an object, they are initialized implicitly

[dmitriy.novozhilov]

@Sanendak In your original example you've created property objectInObject which was initiliazed by anonymous object. Since Anonymous object doesn't have any denotable name (actually it's name is ExampleObject$objectInObject$1), then compiler approximates type of objectInObject to its supertype (Any in this case), which obviously doesn't have property number

[CLOVIS]

I highly recommend you enable inlay type hints, that will make these cases much, much easier to understand @Sanendak: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/inlay-hints.html