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Kotlin Standard Library Cookbook

You're reading from   Kotlin Standard Library Cookbook Master the powerful Kotlin standard library through practical code examples

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788837668
Length 242 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Samuel Urbanowicz Samuel Urbanowicz
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Preface 1. Ranges, Progressions, and Sequences 2. Expressive Functions and Adjustable Interfaces FREE CHAPTER 3. Shaping Code with Kotlin Functional Programming Features 4. Powerful Data Processing 5. Tasteful Design Patterns Adopting Kotlin Concepts 6. Friendly I/O Operations 7. Making Asynchronous Programming Great Again 8. Best Practices for the Android, JUnit, and JVM UI Frameworks 9. Miscellaneous 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Implementing the advanced Observer pattern by defining a custom property delegate

In this recipe, we are going to implement a custom, generic property delegate combining features of the Observable and Vetoable delegates available in the standard library. In other words, we want to implement a property delegate that allows us to notify a subscribed listener about any changes made to the observed property. At the same time, we also want the delegate to allow filtering of the updates made to the delegated property. In this example, we are going to declare the temperature: Int variable delegated to our custom implementation of the ObservableVetoable delegate class. We are going to create a generic class that allows us to pass the initial value, a function responsible for filtering property updates and a function that will be invoked immediately after the change to the property is...

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