private fun defaultOptions() {
val options = ArrayList<TextView>()
tvoptionone?.let { options.add(0, it) }
}
I am currently using the add(index, element)
method in kotlin, However, I don't seem to understand what it represents in the element parameter of the add method.
These are the parameters for the add method I am trying to use
add(index, element)
CodePudding user response:
it
is the context object
on which you've used the let
function.
As you've used it with safe call operator
(?.
) it would only call let
if object is non null
.
Using ?.let
ensures the lambda
to be executed only when the object
is non null. ?.
ensures that object has to be non null
and let
makes that object available as it
inside the lamda.
Here
tvoptionone?.let { options.add(0, it) }
it
is a TextView
as tvoptionone
is a TextView
, and it
has a value same as tvoptionone
.
CodePudding user response:
In the below code
tvoptionone?.let { options.add(0, it) } }
it refers to tvoptionone
notice that lambda passed to let will be called only when tvoptionone is not null, so here it refers to tvoptionone and its value is not null
CodePudding user response:
Questionmark after variable tvoptionone
indicates that this variable can be null
. If you write just:
options.add(0, tvoptionone)
and variable happens to be null
then the add
method will throw an error with wording like param element cannot be null or so.
Keyword let
, in this particular example, is kind of a guardian against passing null
into add
method. If tvoptionone
has some value (is not null
) then it
will be tvoptionone
itself. Otherwise add
method will not be called at all and compilation error will be avoided.
CodePudding user response:
Scope functions are the ones you run on a value, and provide a function to run using that value. There's two kinds of scope functions in Kotlin - the ones where the value is passed in as a parameter
(let, also
etc.) and the ones where it becomes this
(run, apply
etc). They work the same, it just changes how you interact with the value - sometimes one is more convenient or suitable than the other
it
is just the default name for the parameter passed in:
// these two are the same thing
name.let { println("Hi $it") }
name.let { it -> println("Hi $it") }
// rename it to something that reads better if you like
personData.firstName.let { name -> println("Hi $name") }
People have mentioned the null-check feature, where you can make the let
block only run if the value is non-null:
name?.let { println("Hi $it, looking very not-null today") }
but another use for it is creating a temporary variable. If you have a var
, it's possible the value will change while you're using it, so it's common to take a copy of it (so you know your copy won't change):
var importantNumber = 123
if (importantNumber > 100) {
// but it might have just been changed by another thread / coroutine and be < 100!
doThing(importantNumber)
}
var importantNumber = 123
val copy = importantNumber
if (copy > 100) {
// the copy can't change, so we know once we've checked it, it's fine
doThing(copy)
}
since let
creates a variable to pass in as a parameter, it's basically making a copy in the same way:
var importantNumber = 123
importantNumber.let { if (it > 100) doThing(it) } // safe because 'it' won't change
and that's super important for nullable var
s - if you check they're null, you need to know they'll stay null. Using ?.let
guarantees that the value passed in as it
will be non-null, because it's a copy that's been null-checked