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Is there anyway for me to call the `copy` function on a generic type? I would like to change the ge...
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j
Is there anyway for me to call the 
copy
function on a generic type? I would like to change the generic type of 
T
to make sure that it's a 
data class
. Or is this just impossible?
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fun <T: Any> doCopy(dataObject: T): T {
    return dataObject.copy()
}
a
the run-time has type erasure - but if you make the function inline, and reify the type, you get access to it, as you’ll only be able to call doCopy in a way such that Kotlin knows that T is compile time
I might have answered the wrong question just then - I suppose what you need to know here, is what the type of an arbitrary data class is 🙂
j
atleast this is still not working
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inline fun <reified T: Any> doCopy(dataObject: T): T {
    return dataObject.copy()
}
h
It is impossible. The compiler generates the copy method, there is no 
Copyable
interface or similar.
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j
That's what I expected, but was just hoping for some Kotlin magic here 😛
h
If you want to copy your classes, you could create the Copyable interface:
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interface Copyable<T> {
  fun doCopy(): T
}

data class Foo(val s: String): Copyable<Foo> {
  override fun doCopy() = copy()
}
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