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Kotlin Programming Cookbook

By : Aanand Shekhar Roy, Rashi Karanpuria
Book Image

Kotlin Programming Cookbook

By: Aanand Shekhar Roy, Rashi Karanpuria

Overview of this book

The Android team has announced first-class support for Kotlin 1.1. This acts as an added boost to the language and more and more developers are now looking at Kotlin for their application development. This recipe-based book will be your guide to learning the Kotlin programming language. The recipes in this book build from simple language concepts to more complex applications of the language. After the fundamentals of the language, you will learn how to apply the object-oriented programming features of Kotlin 1.1. Programming with Lambdas will show you how to use the functional power of Kotlin. This book has recipes that will get you started with Android programming with Kotlin 1.1, providing quick solutions to common problems encountered during Android app development. You will also be taken through recipes that will teach you microservice and concurrent programming with Kotlin. Going forward, you will learn to test and secure your applications with Kotlin. Finally, this book supplies recipes that will help you migrate your Java code to Kotlin and will help ensure that it's interoperable with Java.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Using vetoable delegate


Vetoable delegate is quite similar to the observable delegate, with the only difference of vetoing the change. In the observable delegate, we could get hold of new and old values whenever the observable property was changed. Let's take a look at the definition provided in Kotlin's documentation:

"Returns a property delegate for a read/write property that calls a specified callback function when changed, allowing the callback to veto the modification."

Getting ready

I'll be using IntelliJ IDEA for coding purposes. You can use any IDE capable of executing Kotlin code.

How to do it…

Let's now look at the given steps to understand the vetoable modifier:

  1. Let's take a quick look at an implementation of the vetoable delegated property:
fun main(args: Array<String>) {
    var student:Student by Delegates.vetoable(Student(10),{property, oldValue, newValue ->
        if(newValue.age>25){
            println("Age can't be greater than 25")
            return@vetoable false...