Can you delegate a property to another property in Kotlin? I have the following code:
class SettingsPage {
lateinit var tagCharacters: JTextField
lateinit var tagForegroundColorChooser: ColorPanel
lateinit var tagBackgroundColorChooser: ColorPanel
var allowedChars: String
get() = tagCharacters.text
set(value) = tagCharacters.setText(value)
var tagForegroundColor by tagForegroundColorChooser
var tagBackgroundColor by tagBackgroundColorChooser
}
In order to get property delegation, I declare the following two extension functions:
operator fun ColorPanel.getValue(a: SettingsPage, p: KProperty<*>) = selectedColor
operator fun ColorPanel.setValue(a: SettingsPage, p: KProperty<*>, c: Color?) { selectedColor = c }
However, what I would like to write is something like the following:
class SettingsPage {
lateinit var tagCharacters: JTextField
lateinit var tagForegroundColorChooser: ColorPanel
lateinit var tagBackgroundColorChooser: ColorPanel
var allowedChars: String by Alias(tagCharacters.text)
var tagForegroundColor by Alias(tagForegroundColorChooser.selectedColor)
var tagBackgroundColor by Alias(tagBackgroundColorChooser.selectedColor)
}
Is this possible to do Kotlin? How do I write the class Alias?