I am new to kotlin and I would like to have two polymorphic functions with a default parameter, but it doesn't seem to work. Here is my code:
private fun add(request: Request, share: Boolean = false, number : Int){
Do something ...
}
private fun add(key: String, share: Boolean = false){
Do something ...
}
My problem is that I can't use the default value because the compiler doesn't seem to infer it.
add(request, number)
When I do this, meaning that I want to use the first function with the default value of the boolean, I get an error saying that it requires a string and it found a request.
What I think is that the compiler is confused with default values and polymorphism; it doesn't seem to know witch function to use. Is there any ways to fix this or do I have to explicitly declare the default value each time making the default value useless?
Move the parameter with default value on 3rd place in first function so it would become
private fun add(request: Request, number : Int, share: Boolean = false){
Do something ...
it will work.
you can solve this by named arguments, for example
if you call add(request = request, number = number) It will work as well