Generic function is not compiling

1

Hi,

I tried the “Generic functions” sample from http://confluence.jetbrains.net/display/Kotlin/Functions like this:

``

fun main(args : Array<String>) {

     println(singletonArray(1001))

}

fun singletonArray<T>(item : T) : Array<T> {

  val result = Array<T>(1)

  result[0] = item

  return result

}

but the compiler complains:

``

ERROR: /Users/zemian/apps/kotlinc/./Test.kt: (5, 24) No value passed for parameter init

exec() finished with COMPILATION_ERROR return code

Outdated doc? What’s the proper way to do generic function?

Thanks,
Zemian

2

Yes, outdated doc. Corrected, thanks.

Now this example reads:

``

fun singletonArray<T>(item : T) : Array<T> {

  return Array<T>(1, {item})

}

3

Almost.

It now compiles, but it won’t run.

``

Exception in thread “main” java.lang.ClassCastException: [Ljava.lang.Object; cannot be cast to [Ljava.lang.Integer;

     at namespace.main(Test.kt:2)

Bug?

4

Andrey, one more question. Looking at the API doc at http://jetbrains.github.com/kotlin/versions/snapshot/apidocs/index.html

where can I see the constructor signatures of Array type? Is that the jet.Array? I don’t see any constructors listed.

5

Sorry, I should have checked it running. It's a bug, and a rather deep one. I reported it here: http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-3050

My advice would be to avoid using arrays (both in Kotlin and Java), because they are a low-level implementation mechanism, and reasonably high-leveled code should use collections.

6

Yes, it's jet.Array, but the constructor is not there for some reason...

Have a look here:
https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/blob/master/compiler/frontend/src/jet/Arrays.jet