What is the equivalent of Java static methods in Kotlin?

Question

There is no static keyword in Kotlin.

What is the best way to represent a static Java method in Kotlin?

Answer 1

Simply you need to create a companion object and put the function in it

  class UtilClass {
        companion object {
  //        @JvmStatic
            fun repeatIt5Times(str: String): String = str.repeat(5)
        }
    }

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To invoke the method from a kotlin class:

class KotlinClass{
  fun main(args : Array) { 
    UtilClass.repeatIt5Times("Hello")
  }
}

or Using import

import Packagename.UtilClass.Companion.repeatIt5Times
class KotlinClass{
  fun main(args : Array) { 
     repeatIt5Times("Hello")
  }
}

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To invoke the method from a java class:

 class JavaClass{
    public static void main(String [] args){
       UtilClass.Companion.repeatIt5Times("Hello");
    }
 }

or by adding @JvmStatic annotation to the method

class JavaClass{
   public static void main(String [] args){
     UtilClass.repeatIt5Times("Hello")
   }
}

or both by adding @JvmStatic annotation to the method and making static import in java

import static Packagename.UtilClass.repeatIt5Times
class JavaClass{
   public static void main(String [] args){
     repeatIt5Times("Hello")
   }
}