i'm trying to make a generic json-mapper plugin: ...

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[tipsy]

i'm trying to make a generic json-mapper plugin:

@FunctionalInterface
interface JsonToObjectMapper {
    fun <T> map(json: String, targetClass: Class<T>): T
}

var jsonToObjectMapper = object : JsonToObjectMapper { // use lambda here somehow?
    override fun <T> map(json: String, targetClass: Class<T>): T {
    }
}

according to this SO post (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22588518/lambda-expression-and-generic-method/22588738#22588738) you can't combine generics and lambdas in java, but is it possible to achieve in kotlin somehow?

[Czar]

var jsonToObjectMapper = JsonToObjectMapper<String> { json, _ -> json }

[tipsy]

@Czar that doesn't do work, and also i don't want to create a mapper for a specific type, the implementation should also be generic

[Czar]

Works for me :) as for generic type, yeah, there is no such thing as generic lambda, I believe