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Using reflection is it possible to call a private constructor for a class?  My attempt to do this results in exception about the modifier being private which makes sense but figured there is some way around this

```import kotlin.reflect.jvm.isAccessible
class Foo private constructor()
val constructor = Foo::class.constructors.single()
constructor.isAccessible = true
println(constructor.call())```

<https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin.reflect.jvm/is-accessible.html> "suppress JVM access checks"

(whether this is allowed or not is up to the SecurityManager installed in your ClassLoader)

thanks, that seemed to work I was just missing that isAccessible part

And then there is always Objenesis which can instantiate classes without calling their constructor.