Passing Lamda function to Generic function not working - kotlin

Question

I am playing with Kotlin and I am trying to convert a working Scala code to Kotlin. Everything seems to go pretty well but the compiler gives me this error and I dont know how to handle it.
Type mismatch: inferred type is Any but ExQuestion was expected for this line: return makeMap(questions, add2)
I am using a generic function because I need to access members of type A when building the map and the members would be visible through the lambda function provided.
Here's the code which you can copy into the Kotlin sandbox:
data class ExQuestion(val area: String, val rId: String, val text: String, val rIdAnswer: String, val line: Long)
fun main() {
fun <A> makeMap(list: List<A>, addValue: (A, MutableMap<String, A>) -> Unit): Map<String, A> {
val map = mutableMapOf<String, A>()
for( item in list) {
addValue(item, map)
}
return map
}
val add2: (ExQuestion, MutableMap<String, ExQuestion>) -> Unit =
{ question: ExQuestion, map: MutableMap<String, ExQuestion> ->
val key = question.rId
if (map[key] == null) {
map[key] = question
} else {
println("Id Frage mehrfach vorhanden - " + key)
}
}
val questions = listOf(ExQuestion("Area", "Q01", "text", "A01",1))
return makeMap(questions, add2)
}
Working code:
data class ExQuestion(val area: String, val rId: String, val text: String, val rIdAnswer: String, val line: Long)
fun main() {
fun <A> makeMap(list: List<A>, addValue: (A, MutableMap<String, A>) -> Unit): Map<String, A> {
val map = mutableMapOf<String, A>()
for( item in list) {
addValue(item, map)
}
return map
}
val add2: (ExQuestion, MutableMap<String, ExQuestion>) -> Unit =
{ question: ExQuestion, map: MutableMap<String, ExQuestion> ->
val key = question.rId
if (map[key] == null) {
map[key] = question
} else {
println("Id Frage mehrfach vorhanden - " + key)
}
}
val questions = listOf(ExQuestion("Area", "Q01", "text", "A01",1))
val map = makeMap(questions, add2)
println(map.values)
}

Answer 1

I'm not sure what your question is, but you can convert your list of questions to a map keyed on rId by doing:
val map = questions.map { it.rId to it }.toMap()
println(map)
Result:
{Q01=ExQuestion(area=Area, rId=Q01, text=text, rIdAnswer=A01, line=1)}
Update in response to comments.
You can achieve that without a mutable map by doing something like this:
val map = questions
.groupBy { it.rId }
.mapValues { (key, values) ->
if (values.size > 1) println("Id Frage mehrfach vorhanden - $key")
values.first()
}
However, I think your mutable map solution is fine and arguably clearer, so this is just for demonstration.