How do I disambiguate in Scala between methods with vararg and without
java, scala, scalac
Solution
Sorry, I now realize this is a known interoperability problem with Java. See this question and the ticket. The only work around I know of is to create a small Java class just to disambiguate these calls.
Problem
I'm trying to use the java jcommander library from Scala. The java JCommander class has multiple constructors: ``` public JCommander(Object object) public JCommander(Object object, ResourceBundle bundle, String... args) public JCommander(Object object, String... args) ``` I want to to call the first constructor that takes no varargs. I tried: ``` jCommander = new JCommander(cmdLineArgs) ``` I get the error: ``` error: ambiguous reference to overloaded definition, both constructor JCommander in class JCommander of type (x$1: Any,x$2: <repeated...>[java.lang.String])com.beust.jcommander.JCommander and constructor JCommander in class JCommander of type (x$1: Any)com.beust.jcommander.JCommander match argument types (com.lasic.CommandLineArgs) and expected result type com.beust.jcommander.JCommander jCommander = new JCommander(cmdLineArgs) ``` I've also tried using a named parameter, but got the same result: ``` jCommander = new JCommander(`object` = cmdLineArgs) ``` How do I tell Scala I want to call the constructor that doesn't take varargs? I'm using Scala 2.8.0.