I ran into real weirdnesses with an combined apple source set for watchos and ios because the NSInte...

# kotlin-native

[Paul Woitaschek]

I ran into real weirdnesses with an combined apple source set for watchos and ios because the NSInteger is a long on ios and an int on watchos.
This made me write really strange code like this:

internal fun NSInteger.toInt(): Int {
  return asInt()
}

private fun Any.asInt(): Int {
  return when (this) {
    is Long -> this.toInt()
    is Int -> this
    else -> error("Could not convert $this to Int")
  }
}

Is there a better way to do that? I’m kind of looking for the opposite of cinterop.convert.

[mbonnin]

I starred that some time ago that looks like it's what you're looking for ? https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-41509

[mbonnin]

(unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a definitive answer yet)

[russhwolf]

I think convert() would still work in this case. But I might be missing something. There are edge cases where it's not what you want.

[Paul Woitaschek]

That issue is definately describing my problem. Convert doesnt help as it's only defined on the kotlin types

[russhwolf]

Ah yeah I see. One workaround then is to leave your public Kotlin APIs in terms of NSInteger so you can do whatever conversion you need (convert(), or some `expect`/`actual` that differs between 32-bit and 64-big sources) on the Kotlin side.