your brackets look off - what happens if you do mode?.equals

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[infini]

your brackets look off - what happens if you do mode?.equals

[nayanjyoti]

@infini : Yes, minor typo while copy pasting and removing irrelavant pieces from code. I haven’t tried that mode?. part. But shouldn’t the lazy be invoked only when I first try to access it, which is after the framework inits all the vars

[Andreas Sinz]

@nayanjyoti your mode can't be null

[Andreas Sinz]

the only way that mode == null is possible via reflection

[Andreas Sinz]

can you post the Exception?

[nayanjyoti]

the value of mode is set via reflection by the framework. And I’m sure it is not null. unfortunately I don’t have the stacktrace now and since it was something on deadlines I went to make a function in the data class which does the same thing only.

[Andreas Sinz]

is it working with a regular function?

[nayanjyoti]

Yes. I added a

fun getStatus()

which does the same thing as above, and it is working.

[karelpeeters]

Can you try the ?. thing? If that works there's a problem with your framework.

[nayanjyoti]

I will try it probably tomorrow, however, I wanted to know how exactly lazy works? Can you point me to any resource where I can learn more about it?

[dagguh]

Read https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/delegated-properties.html to learn how the by keyword works.

[dagguh]

Navigate with IDEA into the lazy function call to learn how it works

[dagguh]

If you want to quickly receive help with your specific use case, show code we can run and see the problem or at least provide a stacktrace

[dagguh]

Side-note: avoiding reflection prevents such weird problems