How to overcome “same JVM signature” error when implementing a Java interface?

Question

With the code below, I am getting the following error in IntelliJ IDEA 13.1.6 and Kotlin plugin 0.11.91.AndroidStudio.3:

Platform declaration clash: The foll         


        

Answer 1

If you have direct control over the interface then the best approach is to write the interface in Kotlin. You can then write your class

public class KotlinClass(override val name: String?) : KotlinInterface

and still reference it from any Java code using the same interface as before. This looks a lot neater than setting all the properties to private and overriding the get function. Obviously if you can't migrate the interface to Java because you don't own it then that seems to be the only solution.