Help me with kotlin

[fossil kite]

So I just started out with kotlin. Until now I've learned many ways to make code "cleaner" and more efficient when writing kotlin compared to java.

But when it comes to this

How can I simplify this

Im using Gson to parse a json file into my own "RawEmbed" object

But I need to check if my variables are != null to successfully get an instance of the EmbedBuilder obj (JDA)

I mean a whole lot of if else statements work but it seems to bloated

for the big if code block at the bottom of the picture, author looks like this:

[chrome jetty]

Optional null?

[fossil kite]

wdym

[chrome jetty]

obj?.name

for instance

Also

Believe you can create a sequence

And then run sth if everything is not null or if one thing is null etc

Anyways, null sucks

[fossil kite]

yes but embed.setTitle(obj?.name) will fail. EmbedBuilder#setTitle will throw

im trying to not pass null to anything

[chrome jetty]

Well, wouldn’t you use embed?.title = obj?.name

[fossil kite]

wait that works?

[chrome jetty]

Haven’t used kotlin exceedingly much

But if I’m not totally wrong that may work

[fossil kite]

no, I believe thats just for kotlin -> kotlin

not java -> kotlin

[chrome jetty]

Oh yeah interop sucks ass then

[fossil kite]

there is only setTitle

[chrome jetty]

Guess you could technically make an extension function

Which operates safer

[fossil kite]

hmm example? doc?

not sure what you mean

[chrome jetty]

Google extension function

Anyhow have to go now

[fossil kite]

woah

thats sick

now you mean I would create extension functions to add the data

and check if the data is null there

by data I mean my own properties

not sure where I'm going with this

[fossil kite]

Ended up doing this

as all the fields are nullable anyways