```if (message.fileDescriptor?.isImageType ?: fals...

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[Jérôme Gully]

if (message.fileDescriptor?.isImageType ?: false)

Is there a better way to write that ? because fileDescriptor can be null, i'm forced to write ?: false, maybe kotlin as a sugar syntax to avoid the ?: false like "if this is null, it's false"

[Milan Hruban]

You should write

if (message.fileDescriptor?.isImageType == true)

[Milan Hruban]

https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/idioms.html#consuming-a-nullable-boolean

[Jérôme Gully]

Thanks 🙂