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I really need to call a Kotlin method with reified type parameter from Java. Is there no workaround? I am willing to add utilities or even use reflection if needed.

You can make a helper method with the specific type. (Maybe a compiler plugin)

if it's your reified method, you could probably refactor it to call a non-reified overload, but with extra `Class&lt;T&gt;` parameter

if not, it might have that overload anyways

Good idea, to just make a type-specific helper method to call.

<@U01FA7E9T4N> unfortunately it’s not my method

an `inline fun` (which is the only way `&lt;reified T&gt;` is allowed) is not callable on JVM. it is compiled to a chunk of bytecode which stored in the `@kotlin.Metadata` of the containing class. when a Kotlin caller calls it, the Kotlin compiler copy-pastes that bytecode at the callsite. there is no way to do that in Java, so you'd have to replicate the function in Java instead.

if all the `inline fun &lt;reified T&gt;` function does is call `T::class.java` then pass it on to another (non-inline) function, then it is easy to replicate the function in Java