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Learn Kotlin Programming

You're reading from   Learn Kotlin Programming A comprehensive guide to OOP, functions, concurrency, and coroutines in Kotlin 1.3

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789802351
Length 514 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Stefan Bocutiu Stefan Bocutiu
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Stephen Samuel Stephen Samuel
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Fundamental Concepts in Kotlin FREE CHAPTER
2. Getting Started with Kotlin 3. Kotlin Basics 4. Object-Oriented Programming in Kotlin 5. Section 2: Practical Concepts in Kotlin
6. Functions in Kotlin 7. Higher-Order Functions and Functional Programming 8. Properties 9. Null Safety, Reflection, and Annotations 10. Generics 11. Data Classes 12. Collections 13. Testing in Kotlin 14. Microservices with Kotlin 15. Section 3: Advanced Concepts in Kotlin
16. Concurrency 17. Coroutines 18. Application of Coroutines 19. Kotlin Serialization 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Useful KClass properties

A KClass fully describes a particular class including its type parameters, superclasses, functions, constructors, annotations, and properties. Let's define a toy class:

    class Sandwich<F1, F2>() 

Now we can inspect the KClass for this and find out the types of parameters it declares. We do this using the typeParameters property available on the KClass instance:

    val types = Sandwich::class.typeParameters 

From here, we can get the label of the type parameter and the upper bounds, if any have been defined (otherwise, Any):

    types.forEach { 
      println("Type ${it.name} has upper bound ${it.upperBounds}") 
    } 

In the case of Sandwich, this would output the following:

    Type F1 has upper bound [kotlin.Any?] 
    Type F2 has upper bound [kotlin.Any?] 

Next, let's show the superclasses for a given type. Firstly, we...

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