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Cody Engel
February 02, 2021
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Transcript
Type Safety in an Unsafe World with Kotlin Cody Engel,
Staff Software Engineer @ PayPal
What is Type Safety? It is kind of confusing. Photo:
Matthew Hamilton via Unsplash
Robin Milner, A Theory of Type Polymorphism in Programming “Well
typed programs cannot go wrong.”
Going Wrong Syntactically valid, but meaningless. Type Safety by Michael
Hicks - http://bit.ly/ple-type-safety
Well Typed It may crash, but that is by design
in Kotlin. Type Safety by Michael Hicks - http://bit.ly/ple-type-safety
Well Typed, Continued This is by design in Ruby and
may also crash. Type Safety by Michael Hicks - http://bit.ly/ple-type-safety
Cody Engel, Type Safety in an Unsafe World with Kotlin
“Some languages have stricter behavior than others.”
What is Kotlin? It is a strict, yet concise programming
language. Photo: Marc Reichelt via Unsplash
Define Types Name can be inferred to be a String.
Define Mutability A variable defined as “var” can change.
Define Structures Structured data is more predictable.
Define Nullability Nullability is opt-in.
Define Concurrency Coroutines make concurrency simpler.
And The Unsafe World? That would be our APIs. Photo:
Jason Yoder via Unsplash
is_admin As a boolean it works well. Unfortunately, this wasn’t
how it was actually modeled.
is_admin Our permissions class was never safer! However this is
how we would model that information in Kotlin.
is_admin Okay, technically this isn’t too bad. Although, it is
not the best way to model a boolean with JSON.
is_admin Extension functions to the rescue. This could also be
an extension property, but extension functions look better in Keynote
is_admin Strings can also represent numeric values which can represent
booleans. I was pretty excited to make use of extension functions, so it was fine.
is_admin Unfortunately String already has a toBoolean function. And that
function is for converting “true” and “false” into a boolean
is_admin I can’t recall if this was actually possible with
the API. However there is a good chance it could have been possible based on customer configurations.
is_admin Fortunately, it isn’t too difficult to add. Nonetheless, it’d
be great if this wasn’t required in the first place
is_admin It was nullable though. That’s okay though, nullability is
actually pretty simple with Kotlin.
is_admin Updating our extension function to be on a nullable
Any works. Since we type cast on non-null types, the else branch catches our null case.
Making The World a Safer Place How to design safer
APIs. Photo: Matthew Rumph via Unsplash
Stick to a strict API when rolling your own specification.
Use an industry standard specification, such as Open API.
Look at JSON alternatives such as Protocol Buffers.
Let’s build some great and safe APIs. • YouTube -
bit.ly/cody-yt • Twitter - bit.ly/cody-twitter • Medium - bit.ly/cody-medium Thanks!