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Implicit SAM Instances

Implicit SAM Instances

Kotlin's support for SAM (single accessor method) interfaces lets you pass a lambda to the interface. This will create a new instance on the fly even though there is no explicit constructor call. If you pass one of these lambdas or method references into a method which (for example) stores or compares the object identity, unexpected results may happen.

Issue id: ImplicitSamInstance

Inspection Details

Available in:

IntelliJ IDEA 2023.3, Qodana for Android 2023.3, Qodana for JVM 2023.3

Plugin:

Android, 2022.3.1 Beta 2

Last modified: 13 July 2023