hi guys. What would be the proper way to shade the

kotlin-stdlib

. I have to do this as one of the dependency of my project brings older version of kotlin and I face issues at runtime. I tried using the standard

johnrengelman

gradle plugin to shade the library and it worked well. The problem is, it converts kotlin code to java code in the shaded library. I loose all suspend functions in the shaded file and stuck at it. How can I deal with it? Thanks in advance 🙂

What do you mean with converting? This is very strange. It shouldn`t and doesn’t convert any code.

what I mean by example:

runBlocking

in normal file looks like this:

@Throws(InterruptedException::class)
public actual fun <T> runBlocking(context: CoroutineContext, block: suspend CoroutineScope.() -> T): T {
// some code
}

the same

runBlocking

from the shaded file:

public static final <T> T runBlocking(@NotNull CoroutineContext context, @NotNull Function2<? super CoroutineScope, ? super Continuation<? super T>, ? extends Object> block) throws InterruptedException {
        return BuildersKt__BuildersKt.runBlocking(context, block);
    }

This has nothing to do with converting. The bytecode is simply not being recognized as Kotlin/suspending when the metadata is renamed by the shading. It still works the same.

Thanks for the thorough response @ephemient. Will look back at my usecase and see if I can avoid shading. Or will ask for more help with more details if I can't 🙂