I'm trying to check if a lateinit
property has been initialized.
In Kotlin 1.2 we now have the isInitialized
method for that. It works when I do that in the class where the lateinit property is declared.
But when I try to call this from another class I get the following warning:
Backing field of 'lateinit var foo: Bar' is not accessible at this point
My model class (let's say Person
) is written in Java
Two other classes (let's say Test1
and Test2
) are written in Kotlin
Example:
class Test1 {
lateinit var person: Person
fun method() {
if (::person.isInitialized) {
// This works
}
}
}
-
class Test2 {
lateinit var test1: Test1
fun method() {
if (test1::person.isInitialized) {
// Error
}
}
}
Any chance to get this working?
My current workaround is to make a method in Test1 which returns isInitialized
from the person
property.
fun isPersonInitialized(): Boolean = ::person.isInitialized
//in Test2:
if (test1.isPersonInitialized()) {
// Works
}
According to the docs:
This check is only available for the properties that are lexically accessible, i.e. declared in the same type or in one of the outer types, or at top level in the same file.
Which is why you cannot check that in the main function.
A really simple workaround to the constraints described by the accepted answer is the following:
class LateClass {
lateinit var thing: Thing
fun isThingInitialized() = ::thing.isInitialized
}
class Client {
val lateClass = LateClass()
... things happen ...
if (lateClass.isThingInitialized() {
// do stuff with lateClass.thing, safely
}
}
You can check if a lateinit
property has been initialized by catching the UninitializedPropertyAccessException
like so:
class Person {
lateinit var name: String
}
class Test {
lateinit var person1: Person
lateinit var person2: Person
init {
try {
println(person1.name)
}
catch(e: UninitializedPropertyAccessException) { // is thrown because person1 has not been initialized
println("ups")
}
person2 = Person()
try {
println(person2.name)
}
catch(e: UninitializedPropertyAccessException) { // is thrown because person2.name has not been initialized
println("ups")
}
}
}
fun main(args: Array<String>) {
Test() // ups ups
}