A thing to look out for when using the toString
method in Kotlin is the handling of null in combination with the String?
.
For example you want to get text from an EditText
in Android.
You would have a piece of code like:
// Incorrect: val text = view.textField?.text.toString() ?: ""
You would expect that if the field did not exists the value would be empty string but in this case it is "null"
.
// Correct:
val text = view.textField?.text?.toString() ?: ""