How to check generic type in Kotlin?

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If you need to check if something is of generic type T you need to to have an instance of Class<T> to check against. This is a common technique in Java however in Kotlin we can make use of an inlined factory method that gets us the class object.

class Generic<T : Any>(val klass: Class<T>) {
    companion object {
        inline operator fun <reified T : Any>invoke() = Generic(T::class.java)
    }

    fun checkType(t: Any) {
        when {
            klass.isAssignableFrom(t.javaClass) -> println("Correct type")
            else -> println("Wrong type")
       }

    }
}

fun main(vararg args: String) {
    Generic<String>().checkType("foo")
    Generic<String>().checkType(1)
}

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