Is there any way to silence this compiler error? ...

# javascript

[benleggiero]

Is there any way to silence this compiler error?

Error (51, 5): Kotlin: Overriding `external` function with optional parameters

[bashor]

Why do you want to do it? Could you please provide more information about the your case?

[benleggiero]

I want to implement a “blackhole” subclass of HTMLElement that I can pass to things that require a non-null one, so that any operations on it are ignored. In attempting to implement its convertPointFromNode function, I am given that error, since the abstract function has optional parameters. This is in GeometryUtils of org.w3c.dom.kt, line 3788

[bashor]

Thank you, we'll investigate it!

[Ayfri]

so ?

[bashor]

Restriction is still there, but you can override convertPointFromNode and other members of HTMLElement.

[bashor]

Created an issue about it https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-48755