How do you trick the type checker if you just know better? For example in Gradle context if I do

configurations.create("foo") {
    val runtimeAttributes = configurations.runtimeClasspath.get().attributes
    runtimeAttributes.keySet().forEach { key ->
        attributes.attribute(key, runtimeAttributes.getAttribute(key))
    }
}

I know that

key

and

runtimeAttributes.getAttribute(key)

are compatible, but the Kotlin compiler does not. The method is declared

attribute(Attribute<T> key, T value)

.attribute(key as Attribute<Any>, runtimeAttributes.getAttribute(key))

unchecked cast would probably bypass it

Nope 😞