We don't think that Kotlin itself needs
Optional
because it has strongnull
-safe type system that effectively eliminates need in such a wrapper. However there are Java APIs and libraries like RxJava 2 and RxJava 3 which don't acceptnull
values and language-level nullability cannot help with that.
We also think that in many cases you can use
sealed class
es to express absent values, however in simple cases like passingString?
through RxJava streamOptional
is a more convenient solution.
The goal of this implementation is to be convenient to use and fit Kotlin's null
-safe type system, which resulted in:
- Only two functions:
toOptional()
andtoNullable()
.- Mimics Kotlin functions like
toInt()
andtoBoolean()
.
- Mimics Kotlin functions like
Some
andNone
are declared as top level types.- No need to write
Optional.Some
orOptional.None
.
- No need to write
- No functions like
map()
,getOrElse()
,filter()
, etc.- Use
toNullable()
and Kotlinstdlib
functions likelet()
,takeIf()
instead.
- Use
val some = Some(value)
val none = None // It's an object!
// T? β Optional<T>
// If value is null β you'll get None, otherwise you'll get Some(value).
val o = value.toOptional()
// Optional<T> β T?
// If optional is None β you'll get null, otherwise you'll get non-null T value.
val t = optional.toNullable()
val f = optional.toNullable() ?: "fallback"
when (optional) {
is Some -> println(optional.value)
is None -> println("Nope!")
}
// If Optional is None β you'll get null, otherwise you'll get non-null T value.
val (value) = optional
Use the static Optional.toOptional()
to wrap an instance of T
into Optional<T>
.
val values = Observable.just(Some("a"), None, Some("b"))
// Filter Some values.
values
.filterSome()
.test()
.assertValues("a", "b")
// Filter None values.
values
.filterNone()
.test()
.assertValues(Unit) // filterNone() maps None to Unit.
val values = Flux.just(Some("a"), None, Some("b"))
// Filter Some values.
values.filterSome()
// Filter None values.
values.filterNone()
Koptional is available on jcenter. All the releases and changelogs can be found on Releases Page.
implementation "com.gojuno.koptional:koptional:$koptional_version"
RxJava 2 Extensions
implementation "com.gojuno.koptional:koptional-rxjava2-extensions:$koptional_version"
RxJava 3 Extensions
implementation "com.gojuno.koptional:koptional-rxjava3-extensions:$koptional_version"
Reactor Extensions
implementation "com.gojuno.koptional:koptional-reactor-extensions:$koptional_version"
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