Class is not abstract and does not implement abstract base class member

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I’m confused by this Kotlin error associated with providing an implementation for an abstract class that has been imported from a maven package.

I have a maven library that is written in Kotlin and exposes an abstract class called APIGatewayRequestHandler. In my app that imports the library, I provide an implementation of the abstract class:

class GetWelcomeMessageHandler : APIGatewayRequestHandler<WelcomeMessage>()
    fun handleAPIGatewayRequest(input: com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.events.APIGatewayProxyRequestEvent, context: com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.Context?): WelcomeMessage {
        return WelcomeMessage()
    }
}

The decompiled abstract class from the library looks like this:

public abstract class APIGatewayRequestHandler<T> public constructor() : com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.RequestHandler<com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.events.APIGatewayProxyRequestEvent, T> {
    public abstract fun handleAPIGatewayRequest(input: com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.events.APIGatewayProxyRequestEvent, context: com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.Context?): T

    public open fun handleRequest(input: com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.events.APIGatewayProxyRequestEvent?, context: com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.Context?): T {
        /* compiled code */
    }
}

I get the following error:

Class 'GetWelcomeMessageHandler' is not abstract and does not implement abstract base class member
public abstract fun handleAPIGatewayRequest(input: APIGatewayProxyRequestEvent, context: Context?): WelcomeMessage
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You missed the override keyword, this way you just shadow the name.

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