How to Pass vararg to a varag function or constructor in Kotlin?

Question

Kotlin does not allow my subclass to pass vararg to my super class constuctor Here is my Operation class:

package br.com.xp.operation  import java.util.ArrayList  abstract class Operation(vararg values: Value) : Value {     protected var values: MutableList<Value> = ArrayList()      internal abstract val operator: String } 

and here is my SubtractionOperation class:

package br.com.xp.operation  class SubtractionOperation private constructor(vararg values: Value) : Operation(values) {     override val operator: String         get() = "-" } 

The compile says:

Type mismatch Required Value found Array

Can anyone explain why this is not possible?

Answer 1

From the docs:

Inside a function a vararg-parameter of type T is visible as an array of T.

So in the SubtractionOperation constructor, values is really an Array<Value>. You need to use the spread operator (*) to forward these on:

class SubtractionOperation private constructor(vararg values: Value) : Operation(*values) ...