In few of my projects in spring boot I have used ModelMapper (https://www.baeldung.com/java-modelmapper). However now I am writing an app using Kotlin, and I couldn't find any solution that would be easier to use for converting objects from one class to another. Let's say that we have two classes like these:
class Test(val name: String, val size: Int)
class AnotherTest(val name: String, val size: Int, val id: String)
If these classes were written in Java, we could convert AnotherTest to Test like this:
// some class definition with modelMapper of ModelMapper type field, methods
public Test convertToTest(AnotherTest anotherTest) {
Test testInstance = this.modelMapper.map(anotherTest, Test.class);
}
I think using something like Test.class is illegal in Kotlin, so how should I write this function in Kotlin?
When I tried it myself by writing it the same way as in java:
fun convertToTest(another: AnotherTest): Test = this.modelMapper.map(another, Test.class)
I am getting 2 errors:
Name expected
Expecting ')'