Is there a way to (locally) decorate an operator f...

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[Paul Griffith]

Is there a way to (locally) decorate an operator fun to take precedence over a builtin on the class? I'm writing test cases where overloading get makes sense, but some of the data I have to pass in are arrays. I can manually 'up' cast to Any, but I'm curious if there's any other possibility.

[Nir]

Just curious, why do you want to overload get so badly instead of using a named extension function?

[ephemient]

a wrapper type may also be an option to consider

[Paul Griffith]

The thing that I'm testing is thing[arg, arg]

[Paul Griffith]

so by overloading get I can write the test case (in Kotlin) and it looks exactly like the real case (in proprietary DSL)

[ephemient]

you can overload that just fine, the signature is different than built-in get

[Paul Griffith]

Sorry - variable number of args, so I have to overload get(arg) and get(arg, arg) - you're right that the latter 'just works'

[ephemient]

I'd go with wrapper types for your DSL, then.

[Youssef Shoaib [MOD]]

If you need to go super evil though, you could use @kotlin.internal.HidesMembers but you need to shadow that annotation using the instructions provided here

[ephemient]

I've done that before with using a special sourceSet and adding to compileOnly. seems quite dangerous here, especially since OP (presumably) still needs some way to call the original get method…