Is there any way to get a method reference to a co...

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[eygraber]

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

[nanodeath]

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

[eygraber]

If I do it without a FQN it works

i.e. ::JsonObject

[nanodeath]

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

[nanodeath]

does it need to be FQN?

[eygraber]

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

[nanodeath]

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

[nanodeath]

that said...it's surprising that :: and FQNs seem not to play well together

[ephemient]

. binds stronger than ::

[ephemient]

try kotlinx.serialization.json::JsonObject

[nanodeath]

I tried that and ::(the.Class) and neither works :|