Kotlin libraries

JVM dependency On the JVM platform, the Kotlin compiler distribution includes the runtime component required for using the reflection features as a separate artifact, kotlin-reflect. jar . This is done to reduce the required size of the runtime library for applications that do not use reflection features.7 Ara 2021

To me, it had been some sort of black magic unless I came across the idea of reflection. In libraries like Retrofit or Kotlin-serialization, you define a bunch of classes or interfaces and annotate them with some predefined keywords and it works perfectly in the runtime. The same is true for Android .1 Ağu 2021

The KClass type is Kotlin’s counterpart to Java’s java. lang. Class type . It’s used to hold references to Kotlin classes; you’ll see what it lets you do with those classes in the “Reflection” section later in this chapter. The type parameter of KClass specifies which Kotlin classes can be referred to by this reference.

The Kotlin Reflection API allows access to a Class reference . This can then be used to introspect the full details of the Kotlin class. This gives access to the Java Class reference – the java. lang. Class object – but also to all the Kotlin specific details.3 Eyl 2021