what's the easiest way of making this interoperable with java? `class MyClass(val arg1: String, val ...

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[tipsy]

what's the easiest way of making this interoperable with java? class MyClass(val arg1: String, val arg2: String? = null) (making it generate two constructors)

[diesieben07]

https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin.jvm/-jvm-overloads/

[tipsy]

This annotation is not applicable to target 'class'

[tipsy]

i need to pull out the constructor and then annotate that?

[diesieben07]

class MyClass @JvmOverloads constructor(...)

[diesieben07]

No need to pull it out, just need to be a bit more specific

[tipsy]

:l

[tipsy]

thanks!

[tipsy]

could not have imagined that being valid syntax

[Joost Klitsie]

why not? 🙂 you want to annotate the constructor so it will create the JVMOverloads for you, which is an operation on the constructor and not on the class

[nanodeath]

it does look a little weird (spelling out constructor like that) but it is documented here:
• https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/annotations.html#usage
• https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/classes.html#constructors