Maven is actually declarative

the IDE writes 90% of the pom

Gradle was getting pretty decent until this bad Kotlin DSL idea

Bad as in poorly designed, or as in a bad effort all around?

it's mostly the Groovy API in Kotlin which, as a result, requires a bunch of ridiculous extensions and code generation so that it feels the same

i'll wait for v2 where it's designed from scratch to be idiomatic in Kotlin and doesn't rely on code generation based on what you write elsewhere in the file

@jw Do you have evidence there will be such a v2?

I need to make a file downloader that downloads files in parts (using Content-Range) concurrently, how many concurrent downloads is recommended to schedule for OkHttp on Android? Or can I just

enqueue

all of them and let OkHttp handle as many as it think it can? I'm using coroutines and considering the Ktor Client OkHttp wrapper for handling concurrency on the content body receiving side.

There can be an estimate of 10-20 files that range from 1mb till 90mb and currently they are split into 500kb parts.

OkHttp default dispatcher has 5 concurrent request per host and 64 overall

Good to know 🙂! So I can safely enqueue them all and the client will just wait until one of those requests finished? Or is there some kind of timeout on things waiting in the queue for too long?

There are only http timeouts

And http timeouts not applied to requests that wait to be executed, only when request is dispatched

Are there any plans for Picasso to better support

Bitmap.Config.Hardware

?

I use it as my default bitmap config, however whenever I need to apply a

Transformation

I need to remember to change the bitmap config manually before. Picasso could detect that and handle it automatically.

sounds reasonable. it should be less error-prone. can you file an issue on GitHub?

Question about KotlinPoet: For a project I have, I want to generate a config object, which is basically a data class with hardcoded values (such as time, name, etc), much like BuildConfigs in Android. I have the model already, and I just need to assign values when I generate it. Is there a short form for this with Kotlin Poet, or do I have to define every assignment manually myself?

if its all just literals .. do you even need kotlinpoet ? wouldn't a multiline templatstring do the job just fine ?

ofc kotlinpoet still makes sense to use but there is nothing like prepared database statements or what you are describing

apart from making your own utility/wrapper functions afaik

I definitely don’t require kotlinpoet, but you can technically generate code without it no matter what. My goal is to create a class containing static values for time built, git hash (if it exists), project name, and some other configs that are available at compile time but outside of the actual project. I plan on displaying these configs in a rest endpoint, which is why I have a model already. My consideration was that if I could pretty much output

object A { val s: String = "test", val b: Int = 2 }

by having the actual object

A

and its values, it would be easier than me generating each field myself.

no, there are no shorthands for that

it should be straightforward though to iterate over the values you have, create `PropertySpec`s for each and add them to a

TypeSpec.objectBuilder()

KotlinPoet question: How do I specify a type parameter on a superclass? eg I have a class

Superclass<T>

and I want to generate

class Subclass : Superclass<Int>()

. I can’t find an api on

TypeSpec.Builder

to specify

T

as

Int

so I just have

TypeSpec.classBuilder("Subclass")
    .superclass(Superclass::class)
    .build()

which generates

class Subclass : Superclass()

with no parameter.

When using Moshi codegen, do I have to register the adapter in moshi.Builder(), or does it somehow detect it automatically?

The generated adapters are looked up automatically. You don't need to register them explicitly.

Thanks! It might be nice to point that out in the docs 🙂.

Also should

moshi.adapter(Foo::class.java)

be called or

moshi.adapter<Foo>(Foo::class.java)

?

I saw on some sites they use the second version...