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Is there a way to get a `KType` from an `Any`  (or the corresponding KClass&lt;*&gt;) or am I stuck with only having access to the `KClass&lt;*&gt;`?

Well, technically the generic types are erased already at compile time, so that information doesn’t exist anymore by the time you get to reflection at runtime.

If you’re asking if there’s a way to recover generic types at runtime through reflection, there isn’t, this is JVM limitation, although you can recover type _bounds_ if that’s helpful at all.

Oh yeah, that’s true. Damn. Ok I’ll look into an alternative solution.

Note that the `typeOf` function _will_ give you specific type parameters, but it does that using `reified`, which means you have to actually know the full type when you call it, so you can’t use it with an instance value.