Does anybody know if it's possible to create a KClass reference from Java?

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I guess it's not possible, since MainView here isn't a Kotlin class.

Actually, it is possible:

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But not beautiful.

With a static import it isn't so bad though. (

return getKotlinClass(MainView.class);

)

I'm actually finding multiple ways to drastically improve Java interop. This thing might actually be usable from vanilla Java with very little effort. Not sure about builders though.

Builders are the main big thing in tornadoFX

Yeah, I'm trying to augment just the button builder to see how it would work. I don't think it will be super pleasant.

My primary goal was to be able to create a Wizard without much boiler plate though.

We would need to add

@JvmOverloads

to almost everything, so the library size would increase quite a bit. Don't know if it's worth it.

Builders are absolutely doable, but would require a separate library. Wouldn't be hard to do though.

Here is a complete TornadoFX app written in plain Java:

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I tried to use the

button

builder in the

MainView

. It doesn't look very good. In the

BasicDataPage

I constructed a

Form

by not using builders. Not very good either. However, using the

Wizard

itself works perfectly with no issues or drawbacks. I made some adjustments so you can get a KClass reference using

k(type.class)

and overloaded

find

so it works perfectly and can be used as

inject

even.

I played a little with creating Java style builders for TornadoFX:

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They are a bit naive right now, but the BasicDataPage can now be written:

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Of course, that syntax is too tight once you start adding functionality, so you need to expand it:

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(

getTitle()

is used to reuse the

Basic Data

title from the

View

in the Fieldset.

This syntax isn't completely bad. It's not much effort writing those builders either.

I don't know if I would go in the direction of real Java builders

But you made DSL in kotlin for javafx and now you create a DSL around your DSL in Java

I feel like a meme is coming...

I never understood memes

We have a guy here that throws memes around for every occasion. We had some issues with people not making more coffee when the pot was empty. It resulted in this: