Hello Team, I have a doubt about annotation parame...

# ksp

[Jithin Murali]

Hello Team, I have a doubt about annotation parameters. I have an annotation
@Target(AnnotationTarget.CLASS) @Retention(AnnotationRetention.SOURCE)
annotation class GenerateDI( val moduleType: ModuleType, val superType: KClass<*> = Unit::class)

@GenerateDI(ModuleType.ACTIVITY, BaseClass::class)
class SampleClass : BaseClass
(moduleType is a enum class)

generateDIAnnotation?.arguments?.get(0)?.value.toString()
I used this line of code to get the param value as string. But is there any other way to type cast value?

When i tried to type cast it shows an error val newType = generateDIAnnotation?.arguments?.get(0)?.value as ModuleType

[ksp]java.lang.ClassCastException: class com.google.devtools.ksp.symbol.impl.kotlin.KSTypeImpl cannot be cast to class com.xxx.yyy.util.ModuleType

Is there any another way to get argument values. or getting as string values is the only option.

[David Rawson]

does this Stack Overflow answer help?

https://stackoverflow.com/a/73840958/5241933

[Jithin Murali]

Yes, it helped somewhat, but the problem still persists.
listedClasses._map_ *{ it: KSAnnotated ->*
val moduleType = *it*._getAnnotationsByType_(GenerateDI::class)._first_().moduleType
val superType = try {
*it*._getAnnotationsByType_(GenerateDI::class)._first_().superType
null
} catch (e : KSTypeNotPresentException) {
e.ksType.declaration as KSClassDeclaration
}
}
The moduleType property, which is an enum class, can be accessed without any error. However, when attempting to access superType, which is of type KClass<*>, it doesn’t work properly. When I tried to retrieve the supertype using it.getAnnotationsByType(GenerateDI::class).first().superType, I encountered this error.

[ksp] com.google.devtools.ksp.KSTypeNotPresentException:
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.xxx.yyy.db.BaseClass at com.google.devtools.ksp.UtilsKt.asClass(utils.kt:509)
at com.google.devtools.ksp.UtilsKt.createInvocationHandler$lambda-8(utils.kt:385)

All i need is just Super Type Name with its package. Currently i can get name of the class by this line of code
e.ksType.declaration as KSClassDeclaration
But i can’t get the package of that Super Type. when i tried to get ksType.declaration.packageName
I got like this com.google.devtools.ksp.symbol.impl.kotlin.KSNameImpl@48f08bbe

[Jithin Murali]

superType.qualifiedName!!.asString()
😄 This line of code solved my problem. Earlier, I used toString() instead of asString(). Thanks for replying, @David Rawson