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Ok, so I have 

```
    inline fun &lt;reified T&gt; typeToken(): TypeToken&lt;T&gt; = (object: TypeToken&lt;T&gt;() {})
```

… at the top level inside the class, and then inside functions, I can do:

```
        val type = typeToken&lt;LinkedTreeMap&lt;String, Map&lt;String, Map&lt;*, *&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;().type
        val foo = Gson().fromJson(response.jsonString, type)
```

… and that almost works, except, Kotlin asks me to explicitly specify `foo`‘s type as it can’t infer that. So this ends up being:

```
        val type = typeToken&lt;LinkedTreeMap&lt;String, Map&lt;String, Map&lt;*, *&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;().type
        val foo: LinkedTreeMap&lt;String, Map&lt;String, Map&lt;*, *&gt;&gt;&gt; = Gson().fromJson(response.jsonString, type)
```