How to check if a “lateinit” variable has been initialized?

Question

I wonder if there is a way to check if a lateinit variable has been initialized. For example:

class Foo() {

    private lateinit var myFile: Fi         


        

Answer 1

You can easily do this by:

::variableName.isInitialized

or

this::variableName.isInitialized

But if you are inside a listener or inner class, do this:

this@YourClassName::variableName.isInitialized

Note: The above statements work fine if you are writing them in the same file(same class or inner class) where the variable is declared but this will not work if you want to check the variable of other class (which could be superclass or any other class which is instantiated), for ex:

class Test {
    lateinit var str:String
}

And to check if str is initialized:

What we are doing here: checking isInitialized for field str of Test class in Test2 class. And we get an error backing field of var is not accessible at this point. Check a question already raised about this.