I’m looking if it is possible to use reified for c...

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[Eugen Martynov]

I’m looking if it is possible to use reified for class instantiation. I tried code like:

class BaseFragment<T: BaseViewModel> {
  val viewModel: T = createViewModel()
}

private fun <reified T: BaseViewModel> createViewModel() = T::java.class.newInstance()

This compiles but I have just one function with BaseViewModel class as argument. Is it possible to get many such methods for every class that extends it with more specific view model?

[FunkyMuse]

You can't use reified at a class level generic type.

However you can make one abstract/open class and every other that implements it will have that method available.

[Eugen Martynov]

Do you have a reference or example?

[Eugen Martynov]

I wanted to avoid to write in every subclass method to provide specific class name