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So I've run into an issue that works in Java, but I can't figure out how to make it work in Kotlin. Specifically, I'm trying to create an empty instance of an enum set given a type reference. Context for this is a custom deserializer to map null to empty set. Here's the code that works in java (type is a CollectionType)
```
Class&lt;Enum&gt; enumType = type.getContentType().getRawClass() as Class&lt;Enum&gt;
EnumSet.noneOf(enumType)
```
However, the kotlin version does not like the types if implemented as followed
```
val enumType = type.contentType.rawClass as Class&lt;Enum&lt;*&gt;&gt;
EnumSet.noneOf(enumType) 
```
The error kotlin displays on the noneOf call is about  Enum&lt;*&gt; not being a subtype of Enum&lt;Enum&lt;*&gt;&gt;. Is there any way to make this work? Thanks!

Casting to `Class&lt;Nothing&gt;` should work.

Nice. I didn't know about that. It works. Thanks

Why not just `emptySet&lt;Nothing&gt;()`?

That doesn't work because in my case because Jackson throws an argument type mismatch exception since my data class prop is typed as an EnumSet