Hey, I don't suppose anyone could help me out with...

# kodein

[David Fallah]

Hey, I don't suppose anyone could help me out with this issue: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53408628/how-can-i-create-di-bindings-for-generic-types-in-kotlin

TL;DR: need to be able to register Foo<T> and resolve Foo<Int> or Foo<String>.

[Andreas Sinz]

@David Fallah you want to register a Foo<T> and retrieve Foo<Int> back?

[David Fallah]

@Andreas Sinz I want to register an open generic type to a container like Foo<> and be able to resolve Foo<Int>, Foo<String> or Foo<T> for any other sort of T that I ask for, by creating an instance of that generic type with the specified type argument(s)

[David Fallah]

Basically this: https://autofaccn.readthedocs.io/en/latest/register/registration.html#open-generic-components

[Andreas Sinz]

Sadly thats not possible on the jvm (maybe you can do it with reflection and unsafe casts) https://stackoverflow.com/a/30647924/4706743

[David Fallah]

The thing is, the Kodein docs say that the "generic" JVM flavour (which I'm using) is immune to type erasure http://kodein.org/Kodein-DI/?6.0/core#_platform_compatibility_genericity

[Andreas Sinz]

that just means that you can bind a List<Int> and a List<Double> alongside and retrieve one of them based on the generic type, not that you can bind a List<T> and create generic instances (e.g. List<T>) at runtime

[David Fallah]

Ah, fair enough