Working with Kotlin companion object (for kotlin.time.Duration) in Matlab

I'm trying to create an instance of kotlin.time.Duration which represents 5 minutes. In Kotlin code I could write 5.minutes which, due to some helpful gyrations conducted behind the scenes, yields the duration expected. I am working from the assumption that Matlab doesn't understand Kotlin syntax and I have to help it figure out what methods to call on what objects.

The closest I have come so far is

>> javaMethod ('box-impl', 'kotlin.time.Duration', javaMethod ('minutes-UwyO8pc', kotlin.time.Duration.Companion, 5))

ans =

5m

which is pretty tremendously ugly and clumsy, but, still worse, depends on an automatically-generated method name minutes-Uwy08pc which can't be guessed without inspecting the jar file.

Is there a better way? Maybe I've overlooked something.

Answer 1

[Divyanshu]

Hi Robert, probably there is no better way to interact with Kotlin from MATLAB.

As per the following documentation MATLAB provides external Interface only for the languages mentioned and not for 'Kotlin':

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/external-language-interfaces.html

Thanks.