I want to generate a hidden (from Kotlin callers) ...

# compiler

[ansman]

I want to generate a hidden (from Kotlin callers) constructor. On the JVM I'd like it to be synthetic and on other platforms it could be deprecated with HIDDEN warning I suppose. What's my options generating such a constructor? Should I just add @JvmSynthetic and the @Deprecated annotations?

[ansman]

Looks like adding JvmSynthetic works at least. Nice

[edrd]

The doc says:

Synthetic targets become inaccessible for Java sources at compile time while still being accessible for Kotlin sources.

Are you sure it’s working because of JvmSynthetic? Isn’t it because of the @Deprecated?

(asking out of curiosity — I have this use case too)

[ansman]

I haven't added @Deprecated yet so it couldn't be it

[ansman]

I'm having trouble adding the deprecated in fact because I don't know how to set the level, trying to figure out how to get an IrExpression for the level