I have an interface declared in Java that declares standard getter and setter methods and I want to implement that interface in a Kotlin class. Can I not implement those methods using Kotlin properties? It appears not.
I saw a question here from a year ago and at the time you couldn’t, but at this stage not being able to do so seems very broken.
Unfortunately, no. It would be very hard to support in a general case.
The fact that you can call them as properties but not implement them as properties is confusing. And unfortunately it is a pain to implement because you have to create the get and set functions and add a backing property.
I totally agree that it’s a pity, but I think that having them at least usable is better than nothing at all