Visibility Modifiers
https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/visibility-modifiers.html
Visibility Modifiers
Classes, objects, interfaces, constructors, functions, properties and their setters can have visibility modifiers. (Getters always have the same visibility as the property.) There are four visibility modifiers in Kotlin: private, protected, internal and public. The default visibility, used if there is no explicit modifier, is public.
Packages
Functions, properties and classes, objects and interfaces can be declared on the "top-level", i.e. directly inside a package:
// file name: example.kt
package foo
private fun foo() {} // visible inside example.kt
public var bar: Int = 5 // property is visible everywhere
private set // setter is visible only in example.kt
internal val baz = 6 // visible inside the same module
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If you do not specify any visibility modifier, public is used by default, which means that your declarations will be visible everywhere;
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If you mark a declaration private, it will only be visible inside the file containing the declaration;
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If you mark it internal, it is visible everywhere in the same module;
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protected is not available for top-level declarations.
Classes and Interfaces
For members declared inside a class:
- private means visible inside this class only (including all its members);
- protected — same as private + visible in subclasses too;
- internal — any client inside this module who sees the declaring class sees its internal members;
- public — any client who sees the declaring class sees its public members.
open class Outer {
private val a = 1
protected open val b = 2
internal val c = 3
val d = 4 // public by default
protected class Nested {
public val e: Int = 5
}
}
class Subclass : Outer() {
// a is not visible
// b, c and d are visible
// Nested and e are visible
override val b = 5 // 'b' is protected
}
class Unrelated(o: Outer) {
// o.a, o.b are not visible
// o.c and o.d are visible (same module)
// Outer.Nested is not visible, and Nested::e is not visible either
}
Constructors
To specify a visibility of the primary constructor of a class, use the following syntax (note that you need to add an explicit constructor keyword):
class C private constructor(a: Int) { ... }
Local declarations
Local variables, functions and classes can not have visibility modifiers.
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