Can't import `kotlin.io.path` . Tried invalidating caches and restart. Still no luck. Any idea on ho...

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[nilTheDev]

Can't import kotlin.io.path . Tried invalidating caches and restart. Still no luck. Any idea on how to make this work?

[Klitos Kyriacou]

What is it you actually want to do? Path is in java.io.file.Path. Kotlin adds extension functions to the Path class. These extension functions are declared in kotlin.io but are implicitly imported so you don't have to.

[nilTheDev]

I just want to use this Path constructor, from Kotlin's standard library, instead of Java's Paths.get() method.

https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin.io.path/

[Klitos Kyriacou]

This was introduced in Kotlin 1.5. Are you using an IDE plugin for the latest version?

[ilya.gorbunov]

You need to depend on kotlin-stdlib-jdk7 or -jdk8 to use kotlin.io.path package. Usually stdlib dependencies are added automatically by Kotlin gradle plugin, but sometimes gradle plugin fails to determine that it's ok to use kotlin-stdlib-jdk8 and adds a dependency on kotlin-stdlib only.

[nilTheDev]

@Klitos Kyriacou Yes, I am using the latest version.

[nilTheDev]

@ilya.gorbunov Adding kotlin-stdlib-jdk7 does the job. Thank You so much. But it is really confusing for a beginner to understand why something from the stdlib works and why it doesn't.