Write-only property, or different types for getter and setter?

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It seems I can’t do this. Is there a way?

class MyBuilder {
    private val map = TreeMap<String, Any>()
    var body: String
        set(value) {
            map.put("body", value)
        }
}

val b = MyBuilder()
b.body = "foo"

I want to use property syntax to add things to the map. I don’t want a type of String? for setter, because if you add anything it should not be null. If I could have different types for get and set they could be String? and String.

Rob

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It’s hard to answer your question, because it hard to figure from your question what kind of problem you are trying to solve (there is a change that you are aiming for wrong solution). Please be more specific about the problem (not just what you would like to do in Kotlin, but in general)

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At this time Kotlin supports neither write-only properties nor parameter type overloading for the setter. It’s possible that either of those features will be added to a future version of Kotlin, even though they’re not on the 1.1 roadmap.

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