And what I want is to just call that method on something like:

override fun <T> getFoo() : T? { return fromBytes(byteArray) }

In this case, you would need a reifiable reference to T

True, but I cannot have one, right?

Maybe you could pass a

KClass<T>

though the constructor of the enclosing class?

Hmm I am not following 😕

getFoo is in a class, right?

yeap

then the common Java way of doing it has been to add an extra parameter to the constructor

Hehe that’s what is been killing me for some hours now 😞