Delegation — Summary

A quick recap of delegation in Kotlin — delegating interface implementations and delegating properties.

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This article is part of the Kotlin Primer, an opinionated guide to the Kotlin language, which is indented to help facilitate Kotlin adoption inside Java-centric organizations. It was originally written as an organizational learning resource for Etnetera a.s. and I would like to express my sincere gratitude for their support.

It is recommended to read the Introduction before moving on. Check out the Table of Contents for all articles.

When you’re new to delegation, it usually takes some time to wrap your head around the concept, and there is occasionally some confusion about which things can be delegated. So let’s go through a quick summary of the topic.

There are 2 ways delegation can be used in Kotlin

• delegating implementations of interfaces
• delegating implementations of properties (getters…