Kotlin 'when' statement vs Java 'switch'

Question

Pattern matching in Kotlin is nice and the fact it does not execute the next pattern match is good in 90% of use cases.

In Android, when database is updated, we use J

Answer 1

val orders = arrayListOf(
            { upgradeFromV1()},
            { upgradeFromV2()},
            { upgradeFromV3()}
)

orders.drop(oldVersion).forEach { it() }

Answer 2

edit: Original response below. Here's what I'm currently doing:

fun upgrade() {
    fun upgradeFromV1() { /* Do stuff */ }
    fun upgradeFromV3() { /* Do stuff */ }

    tailrec fun upgradeFrom(version: Int): Unit = when (version) {
        LATEST_VERSION -> {
            Config.version = version
        } 1 -> {
            upgradeFromV1()
            upgradeFrom(2)
        } in 2..3 -> {
            upgradeFromV3()
            upgradeFrom(4)
        } else -> {
            Log("Uncaught upgrade from $version")
            upgradeFrom(version+1)
    }

    upgradeFrom(Config.version)
}

---

Here's a variation on the answer @C.A.B. gave:

fun upgrade(oldVersion: Int) {
    when (oldVersion) {
        latestVersion -> return
        1 -> upgradeFromV1()
        2 -> upgradeFromV2()
        3 -> upgradeFromV3()
    }
    upgrade(oldVersion + 1)
}

Answer 3

Simple but wordy solution is:

if (oldVersion <= 1) upgradeFromV1()
if (oldVersion <= 2) upgradeFromV2()
if (oldVersion <= 3) upgradeFromV3()

Another possible solution with function references:

fun upgradeFromV0() {}
fun upgradeFromV1() {}
fun upgradeFromV2() {}
fun upgradeFromV3() {}

val upgrades = arrayOf(::upgradeFromV0, ::upgradeFromV1, ::upgradeFromV2, ::upgradeFromV3)

fun upgradeFrom(oldVersion: Int) {
    for (i in oldVersion..upgrades.lastIndex) {
        upgrades[i]()
    }
}

Answer 4

Another variation of OP's answer:

override fun onUpgrade(db: SQLiteDatabase, oldVersion: Int, newVersion: Int) {
    when (oldVersion) {
        newVersion -> return
        1 -> TODO("upgrade from v1 to v2")
        2 -> TODO("upgrade from v2 to v3")
    }
    oldVersion++
    onUpgrade(db, oldVersion, newVersion)
}