What is a good way to get around not being able to use reified type parameters in an interface? I wa...

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[bachhuberdesign]

What is a good way to get around not being able to use reified type parameters in an interface? I want to have a method like

override inline fun <reified T> foo(key: String, value: T): T {
    }

but it's not possible since you can't inline an interface function

[voddan]

It depends on what you are using the T for. The code in your snippet works just the same if you remove reified

[bachhuberdesign]

I need to call value::class.java directly (which only works if it's reified). I guess I could pass the class as a parameter but I would like to keep the client code as simple as possible

[kirillrakhman]

You can declare inline extension functions for your interface

[voddan]

@bachhuberdesign are you sure you need reifying for that? It compiles for me fun <T: Any> foo(value: T) = value::class.java