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jwass

10/27/2021, 1:56 PM
Hello! I have a number of classes that might or might not be resolved to some external data source. So that just means wrapping in a container. A combination of optional / decorator pattern.
sealed class Resolvable<T>
class Resolved<T>(val value: T, val pk: Long) : Resolvable<T>()
class Unresolved<T>(val value: T) : Resolvable<T>() {
    fun resolved(pk: Long) = Resolved(value, pk)
}
Now I want to take a
Collection<Resolvable<ItemIdentifier>>
and filter only unresolved ones, into a
Collection<Unresolved<ItemIdentifier>>
. This works:
val x : Collection<Unresolved<ItemIdentifier>> = itemIdentifiers.mapNotNull { when(it) {is Unresolved -> it else -> null }}
But I wonder if there's a more idiomatic way to do it? (type annotation on
x
just for clarity).
o

Orhan Tozan

10/27/2021, 2:09 PM
val x: Collection<Unresolved<ItemIdentifier>> = itemIdentifiers.filterIsInstance<Unresolved<ItemIdentifier>>()
j

jwass

10/27/2021, 3:04 PM
!!!! Thank you! Don't know why I didn't see that.
I've got another question related to the above example. I have a sealed class, and both implementations contain the 'same' field. So I want a function on the abstract type to retrieve it.
sealed class Resolvable<T> {
    /** There's a value in either case.
     */
    fun unwrap(): T = when (this) {
        is Resolved -> this.value
        is Unresolved -> this.value
    }

    fun unwrap2(): T =
        if (this is Resolved<T>) {
            this.value
        } else if (this is Unresolved<T>) {
            this.value
        }
}
data class Resolved<T>(val value: T, val pk: Long) : Resolvable<T>()

data class Unresolved<T>(val value: T) : Resolvable<T>()
My compiler is happy with the
unwrap()
when I write it with a
when
. But with an
if
there's a problem with the
else
branch, and it thinks that the return type is
Unit
not
T
. Any ideas why the
when
version is OK but the
if
version is not?
o

Orhan Tozan

10/28/2021, 10:20 AM
Because with an if else, the compiler thinks there is a chance that there would be an else. When basically assures the compiler those are the only 2 cases
j

jwass

10/28/2021, 10:20 AM
So the same sealed class guarantees just don't apply to
if
?
d

dave08

10/28/2021, 11:57 AM
I think if you put
else error("Invalid case")
after that
if
, it should work.
But it's probably not as nice...
j

jwass

10/28/2021, 2:05 PM
Thank you. Not as nice and also not as correct I think. I think there's a clear nudge to use
when
.
t

Tobias Suchalla

10/29/2021, 6:10 AM
BTW, there might be an even easier option (as seen here).
sealed class Resolvable<T> {
    abstract val value: T
}

data class Resolved<T>(
    override val value: T, 
    val pk: Long
) : Resolvable<T>()

data class Unresolved<T>(
    override val value: T
) : Resolvable<T>()
That way there is always a
value
on a
Resolvable<T>
, no need to unwrap.
j

jwass

11/23/2021, 9:00 AM
Thank you! Sorry I didn’t get the notification about this. I did try this approach actually. It works… but in the end it was too verbose to use cleanly.