I need to prevent other classes from instantiating...

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[poohbar]

I need to prevent other classes from instantiating the Child

[aarjav]

maybe you can just use an interface and discourage instantiating it directly?

class Parent {
    companion object {
        fun foo(): Child = Us("field" )
    }

    interface Child {
        val field: String
    }

    private data class Us(override val field: String) : Child
}