How I can set constructors on TypeSpec.anonymousCl...

# squarelibraries

[itnoles]

How I can set constructors on TypeSpec.anonymousClassBuilder()?

[mbonnin]

Aren't anonymousClasses object (for which there are no constructors because they are singletons)?

[itnoles]

well Javapoet allows it, o.O

[mbonnin]

What is the Kotlin code you'd like to generate ?

[ephemient]

even if Javapoet allows it, Java doesn't: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/javaOO/anonymousclasses.html "you cannot declare constructors in an anonymous class"

[ephemient]

if you're trying to pass arguments to the anonymous class's super constructor, use addSuperclassConstructorParameter

[itnoles]

Didn't work

[ephemient]

can you give an example of what didn't work?

[itnoles]

childElementBinders.put("channel", object : NestedChildElementBinder<ValueHolder> {
      init {
        childElementBinders = HashMap<String, ChildElementBinder<ValueHolder>>()

[ephemient]

oh that's not a constructor, that's an initializer block

[itnoles]

oh

[ephemient]

as a simple demo, the snippet produces this:

package example

import java.util.HashMap
import kotlin.String
import kotlin.Unit

public fun main(): Unit {
  childElementBinders.put("channel", object : NestedChildElementBinder<ValueHolder>() {
    init {
      childElementBinders = HashMap<String, ChildElementBinder<ValueHolder>>()
    }
  })
}

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