<Secondary constructor initiation logic> I have a ...

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Secondary constructor initiation logic
I have a generic data class like:
data class ConfigurationDTO(
val id: Long,
val key: String,
var value: T
)

And I would like to have a constructor where I could pass the value as String and a KClass to deserialize it. The problem is Kotlin oblies me to call this() on the secondary constructor and I have no value for value yet:
constructor(id: Long, key: String, valueStr: String, klazz: KClass)
: this(id, key, ??????)

What I would like to do is the equivalent like:...