Is there any way to get a method reference to a constructor when accessing it through a FQN? i.e.

::kotlinx.serialization.json.JsonObject

throws a compiler error

I don't think the constructor "method" is one you can directly refer to in code, is it? even in Java

If I do it without a FQN it works i.e.

::JsonObject

https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/reflection.html#constructor-references oh, you're right

Yes, because of clashes, but I found some documentation in KotlinPoet that mentions this and says to use import aliases

that's what I was going to suggest 🙂 import aliases are handy.

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binds stronger than

::

I tried that and

::(the.Class)

and neither works :|