In Kotlin, is there a way to reference the listener instance when using this short notation for anonymous classes? In this case this
refers to outer context (e.g. the Activity
instance) where view
is defined:
view.setOnClickListener {
val self: View.OnClickListener = this // Not compiling, "this" references outer context
}
When using the longer notation where you explicitly state the interface to be implemented and where you explicitly override the callback method, the listener can be referenced through this
:
view.setOnClickListener(object: View.OnClickListener {
override fun onClick(v: View) {
val self: View.OnClickListener = this // Ok
}
})
The term short notation for anonymous classes is not entirely correct. It's actually a short notation for anonymous functions, i.e. lambdas. Of course under the hood they are compiled to classes but from a programming language point of view, anonymous functions don't have identities and therefore it doesn't make sense to refer to their instances via this
.
You can get that resolved by adding an @ActivityName in front of 'this' reference
For example if your Activity name was MainActivity the solution would be:
view.setOnClickListener {
val self: View.OnClickListener = this@MainActivity
}
val animation = object : Animation() {
override fun applyTransformation(interpolatedTime: Float, t: Transformation) {
val layoutParam: RelativeLayout.LayoutParams? = playerView.layoutParams as RelativeLayout.LayoutParams?
layoutParam?.topMargin = convertDpToPixel(position, this@SurahActivity).toInt()
playerView.layoutParams = layoutParam
}
}