I have a library with a primary constructor and a bunch of secondary ones: ```open class GlfwWindow(...

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I have a library with a primary constructor and a bunch of secondary ones:

open class GlfwWindow(var handle: Long) {
    constructor(..)
    constructor(..)
}

using this library from Java, it says that those secondary constructors have private access.. (from Kotlin it's fine though)
what is happening? If I browse the source code I can see the default modifier being public and not private..

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Is one of the arguments of the constructors a value class?

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yes

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is that?

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There's a weird thing with Java interop with value classes in constructors, I don't remember what it is exactly, but it's been discussed before

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thanks for the hint, though!

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https://kotlinlang.org/docs/inline-classes.html#calling-from-java-code ← it's related to this

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are they mangling constructors as well? 😕

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I think so, there's no other way

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it's hidden indeed

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The last time someone asked, they created a YouTrack ticket, but I don't remember which one it is. As far as I remember, the recommendation is to create your own overload that delegates to the real constructor

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I don't get one thing though: if I call that from the java tests from within the same projects, it compiles fine..

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Probably something similar to internal . Check what values you can pass to it, does it actually run the value class' constructor?

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ah, it fires the error on runtime

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I tried but I couldn't find the issue on YouTrack, pity
Anyway, thanks for the help