I have a structure like this in Kotlin
companion object Constants {
/**
* Collection of fields and values relative to phone books.
*/
object PhoneBooks {
/**
* Field indicating the ID of a phone book.
* Each phone book must have an unique ID.
*/
const val PB_ID_KEY = "PB_ID"
/**
* Field indicating the status of phone book.
*/
const val PB_STATUS_KEY = "PB_Status"
/**
* One of the possible [PB_STATUS_KEY] values, when the phone book is in indexing state
* (usually at startup or in update phase).
*/
const val PB_INDEXING = "Indexing"
[...]
The problem is that I must have the possibility to access the constants' values in sub-objects from Java, but it seems not possible. How can I solve that without changing the structure?
JB Nizet commented:
Works fine here using
import static com.yourcompany.yourproject.YourClass.Constants.PhoneBooks;
and then
PhoneBooks.PB_ID_KEY
It works very good for me! So I think it's useful to make it visible as an answer.