Is there a more generic way to do

LoggerFactory.getLogger(SomeService::class.java)

in Kotlin where I won't need to specify the exact class?

It depends on your logging library. KotlinLogging uses an empty function with a lambda to steal the class information (

val logger = KotlinLogging.logger {}

), my Pedestal library lets you pass an object directly (

val logger = loggerFor(this)

)

See kotlin-logging

Typical sl4j with logback project

there are a lot of suggestions here https://www.baeldung.com/kotlin/logging What you probably want is 6.4, a util method with a reified type parameter, or 7, using a delegate. But do consider using kotlin-logging because it includes these fixes and some other Kotlin-friendly helpers. Under the hood it’d still be slf4j + logback.

Thanks for the suggestions, I will take a closer look at kotlin-logging.

after https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-11968/Research-and-prototype-namespace-based-solution-for-statics-and-static-extensions, there may be a way to create a

logger()

extension function without having to explicitly call it with

<>

etc.

Here they explain how you can create a bean and inject it in your classes. https://medium.com/simars/inject-loggers-in-spring-java-or-kotlin-87162d02d068