I’m working with a java library that does something like this:

class Foo {
    public static Foo.Builder Builder() { ... }
    public static class Builder { 
        public Builder() { ... }
    }
}

and i’m trying to call it from kotlin like:

Foo.Builder()
...

but i get complaints about ambiguity…i think because the helper type in

Foo

matches the class name (and therefore the constructor) exactly. does anyone know if there’s a way to disambiguate between the two from kotlin?

Sorry, I misread 🙂

i did mutter some curses at the lib developers, as is tradition.

Always a recommended first step.

calling this code from java does work, which is surprising. i’d think it would be problematic there, too.

hmm. you can sorta disambiguate in one way,

Foo.Builder::class

but that doesn't really help

but i’m in a pure kotlin project now and would hate to open the java gates for that

Java requires a

new

keyword to call the constructor while Kotlin treats them all as callables in the same namespace

Ah ha…good catch

if you don't mind importing kotlin.reflect and bypassing the function, you can

Foo.Builder::class.createInstance()

ah yeah, i’ll probably just do that for now