Is it possible to override static method in Kotlin?

Question

Hello imagine that we have following class

Manager{
   public static void doSth(){
      // some logic
   };
}

How to override that method in k

Answer 1

You can't do that in Kotlin. The problem is that there is no static keyword in Kotlin. There is a similar concept (companion object) but the problem is that your original Java class doesn't have one.

static methods don't support inheritance either so you can't help this on the Java side.

If you want to declare extension methods which are "static" (eg: put them on a companion object) you can do this:

class Manager {

    companion object
}

fun Manager.Companion.doSth() = println("sth")

Then you can call it like this:

Manager.doSth()

Note that you can only augment Kotlin classes this way which have a companion object.