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John Smith
John Smith

Reputation: 45

What is the meaning of "ClassInstance.[Someclass::class.java]" in Kotlin?

I've seen people using ViewModelProvider[Someclass::class.java] instead of ViewModelProvider.get(Someclass::class.java), and it compiles in Android Studio. The problem is that I couldn't find any documentation of such usage online. example

Upvotes: 2

Views: 284

Answers (3)

Tenfour04
Tenfour04

Reputation: 93581

Kotlin allows operator overloading by marking a function as an operator function. The square brackets notation is one of these operators (indexed access operator).

Kotlin automatically interprets Java functions as operator functions if their name and signature match the requirements of a Kotlin operator function. In this case, it interprets functions named get as an "indexed access operator" if they return something, which allows you to use square bracket notation.

Upvotes: 2

ChristianB
ChristianB

Reputation: 2680

With kotlin you can add operator modifiers to your function. So if you have some class with a get function and you might want to access it with [], like an array or map, you could add operator modifier.

Square brackets are translated to calls to get and set with appropriate numbers of arguments.

So this only works for functions with name get or set!

class Provider {
  operator fun get(key: String)
  operator fun set(key: String, value: String) { ... }
}

Then you can call the function like:

Provider().get("key") // IDE hint: should be replaced with indexing operator
Provider()["key"] // calls get()

Provider().set("key", "value") // IDE hint: should be replaced with indexing operator
Provider()["key"] = "value" // calls set()

Reference

Upvotes: 4

i30mb1
i30mb1

Reputation: 4776

ViewModelProvider[Someclass::class.java] is a shorter version of ViewModelProvider.get(Someclass::class.java) there is no differences.

Upvotes: 0

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