Hoping to do away with an unchecked cast - any thoughts? ```@Suppress("UNCHECKED_CAST") fun <IdTy...

# codereview

[Jonathan Mew]

Hoping to do away with an unchecked cast - any thoughts?

@Suppress("UNCHECKED_CAST")
fun <IdType> createWidgetFactory(cls: KClass<out IdType>): WidgetFactory<IdType> =
    when (cls) {
        IdA::class -> WidgetFactoryA() as WidgetFactory<IdType>
        IdB::class -> WidgetFactoryB() as WidgetFactory<IdType>
        else -> throw UnsupportedOperationException("Unknown WidgetFactory type!")
    }

[Jakob]

Personally i just keep unchecked cast for these cases. Idk if the typechecker is smart enough to do this 100% type-safe

[Tomasz Krakowiak]

Why lookup factory class by type?

[Jonathan Mew]

The actual factory has logic which is needed to build some S3 URLs for various resource types.

We use it to hit endpoints both for instances of a class (if we want to retrieve a specific resource) but also to build a prefix in order to list all resources sharing that prefix. So we don't always have an instance to work with and do an is check here.