What’s the best way to define a constant in Kotlin...

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[ralf]

What’s the best way to define a constant in Kotlin with good Java interoperability? Right now I’ve defined the constant like this:

// MyClass.kt
@JvmField
val DEFAULT_FILTER: FilterObject = FilterObject.create()

class MyClass {…}

Problem is in Java I would have to use MyClassKt.DEFAULT_FILTER. I’d like to get rid of the Kt suffix. The const keyword only works for primitives and Strings. A companion object doesn’t work either, then it would look like this MyClass.Companion.getDEFAULT_FILTER().

What’s a better way?