What is the limit of what you can do with reflecti...

# multiplatform

[ribesg]

What is the limit of what you can do with reflection in kotlin MPP? Can you do something simple like this::class.simpleName? Is there a list of things part of stdlib?

[sitepodmatt]

I think it depends on the platform. A different concrete KClass if used dependent on platform, for example the one on JS is basically primitive at the moment with only isInstance and simpleName

[sitepodmatt]

So if you're hoping to do a lot of reflection across platforms in a platform independent way... then computer says no

[sitepodmatt]

e.g. https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/js-reflection.html

[ribesg]

Yes I saw that there was not much but I was wondering what was there. It looks like you don’t even have simpleName on JVM/Android if you don’t have kotlin-reflect

[ribesg]

So to have simpleName available everywhere (for me Android & iOS) I need to have kotlin-reflect on the Android side

[olonho]

Reflection more frequently abused than used anyway, so maybe less MPP reflection is good.