What's preferred in Kotlin - casting or reified Ge...

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What's preferred in Kotlin - casting or reified Generics? I'm using reflection to build arbitrary objects given some values in a request (from Spark-Kotlin). It started with val person = Form(request,Person::class).get() as Person. Then i created an extension function val person = request.bind(Person::class) as Person. Latest version uses reified generics val person = request.bind<Person>(). Are there any clear problems using the reified generic extension function approach?

[ghedeon]

considering std functions like enumValues<Foo>() reified approach is pretty common

[Czar]

+1 for reified, it's cleaner, nicer and it was created exactly for this reason 🙂