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Alexey Soshin
Alexey Soshin
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Alexey Soshin

Alexey Soshin is a software architect with 15 years of experience in the industry. He started exploring Kotlin when Kotlin was still in beta, and since then has been a big enthusiast of the language. He's a conference speaker, published writer, and the author of a video course titled Pragmatic System Design.
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Preferring sealed classes over enums

Coming from Java, you may be tempted to overload your enum with functionality.

For example, let's say you build an application that allows users to order a pizza and track its status. We can use the following code for this:

// Java-like code that uses enum to represent State
enum class PizzaOrderStatus {
    ORDER_RECEIVED, PIZZA_BEING_MADE, OUT_FOR_DELIVERY,      COMPLETED;
 
    fun nextStatus(): PizzaOrderStatus {
        return when (this) {
            ORDER_RECEIVED -> PIZZA_BEING_MADE
            PIZZA_BEING_MADE -> OUT_FOR_DELIVERY
            OUT_FOR_DELIVERY -> COMPLETED
          ...
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Alexey Soshin

Alexey Soshin is a software architect with 15 years of experience in the industry. He started exploring Kotlin when Kotlin was still in beta, and since then has been a big enthusiast of the language. He's a conference speaker, published writer, and the author of a video course titled Pragmatic System Design.
Read more about Alexey Soshin