How to implement this Java interface in Kotlin?

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If a single implementation, as in @zsmb13’s answer, is not enough for you and you need separate implementations for the two methods in Kotlin, then you can add an intermediate interface overriding the method accepting Integer with a nullable parameter:

private interface IntermediateA : A {
    override fun get(i: Int?): Any
}

Implementing this interface instead of the original A, the Kotlin compiler will distinguish the two methods, allowing you to override them as follows:

class C : IntermediateA {
    override fun get(i: Int) = "primitive"
    override fun get(i: Int?) = "boxed"
}


val a: A = C()
println(a.get(1)) // primitive
println(a.get(1 as Int?)) // boxed

If you had access to the Java code, you could fix this by adding a nullability annotation to the method accepting the boxed type:

Object get(@Nullable Integer i);

The Kotlin compiler understands different kinds of nullability annotations, here’s the list.

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