Is there a Kotlin-specific way to load a Kotlin class based on its fully qualified name and then cal...

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[Kirill Grouchnikov]

Is there a Kotlin-specific way to load a Kotlin class based on its fully qualified name and then call its default constructor? Class.forName + Class.getConstructor + Constructor.newInstance, but maybe something that starts with KClass?

[Paul Griffith]

Looks like Java reflection is the only way (for now):
https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-10440

[ephemient]

depends on what you're after, but

Class.forName(name).kotlin.createInstance()

will work when there's a no-args constructor