Hi, is there a way to declare/force a platform typ...

# general-advice

[Empa]

Hi, is there a way to declare/force a platform type (String!) from Kotlin, with an annotation or similar?

I'm making a regex helper where the result gets destructured, and i want the declared types specified for the named groups to decide nullability. for example:

regex.match(string, "group", "nullable") { (groupString, nullableString: String?) -> ... }

Where groupString would be String! and nullableString would be String? , and an NPE would be thrown if groupString ends up being nullable when used.

Right now, the only way I've managed to do this is by creating a helper function in java that returns the passed parameter without any nullability info. I would rather not rely on this method if there is a better way to do it, or is it not possible in pure Kotlin?

[CLOVIS]

AFAIK it's not possible without having a Java method.