I really think trying to create ORMs is a misguided endavour. Instead what we really need is a way to map a row from an sql query to a struct (or similar). Lu

I really think trying to create ORMs is a misguided endavour. Instead what we really need is a way to map a row from an sql query to a struct (or similar). Luckily, the SQLite helpers from Anko do provide this ability, and it's pretty much the only part I use. data class UserRow(val id: Long, val name: String); // .... open db .. etc var users = db.query<UserRow>("select id, name from users where ....."); // where clause content omitted // now users is a list of structs (as close to structs as you can get in Kotlin). Where I have an extension method `query`: inline fun <reified T : Any> SQLiteDatabase.query(sql: String, vararg args: String): List<T> { this.rawQuery(sql, args).parseList(classParser<T>()) }