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hey guys — is there any way I can keep a data class property declared as `Long` exposed as a _boxed_ `java.lang.Long`, as opposed to a `long` primitive? Other than making it nullable, that is.

This is a class that used to be coded in Java and was converted to Kotlin; I do want to take advantage of null-safety from Kotlin code, but I’d like to keep the same types used in the old Java class.

you can add a typealias for it (when importing or whatever)

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that makes Kotlin code _very_ awkward though; every assignment will require a typecast

I'm not sure why that isn't getting implicitly autoboxed