How can reified parameters be applied in inline functions in Kotlin?

In Kotlin, reified parameters allow obtaining information about the type of a parameter at runtime, which is usually impossible due to type erasure. This is only possible in inline functions with the reified keyword.

Example of usage:

inline fun <reified T> Gson.fromJson(json: String): T {
    return this.fromJson(json, T::class.java)
}

Here, the fromJson function can get the class T at runtime thanks to reified, which allows calling T::class.java.

Thus, reified parameters are used for working with types inside inline functions without the need to explicitly pass the class.