I just created a compiler plug-in for Kotlin that ...

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[Alexander Ioffe]

I just created a compiler plug-in for Kotlin that lets you do Scala-style interpolation (a.k.a JEP-430 in Java-land) for Kotlin strings "with $dollar $sign $variables" capturing the variables before they are spliced into the surrounding string.
This allows for third party Kotlin libraries to create functionality like sql-prefixed strings e.g:

val ps: PreparedStatement = sql("SELECT * FROM person WHERE name = $joe")

...and they'll get captured into an array BEFORE being spliced. So you can then put them into a PreparedStatement correctly without worrying about SQL-injection attacks!

Using this kind of functionality Scala libraries like Doobie and Quill allow a set of rich SQL operations. Hopefully now Kotlin libraries will be able to create similar things.
(P.S. Currently the library is JVM-only, if there's an ask for KMP I'll look into it)

(UPDATE I am currently waiting for approval from plugins.gradle.org to be able to publish the plugin)

https://github.com/deusaquilus/Terpal

[Mohammad Zaki]

Hi, if you want to publish your library here - https://iammohdzaki.github.io/KotLibs/
I built this using KMP WebAssembly.
Link to submit library - https://github.com/iammohdzaki/Kotlibs/issues/new?assignees=&labels=library-submit[…]emplate=submit_library.md&title=%F0%9F%9A%80+Submit+Library%3A+

[Alexander Ioffe]

Hi @Mohammad Zaki. I'm waiting for approval from plugins.gradle.org right now (silly me for not knowing I needed to do that 😅). I'll hit the link as soon as I can actually publish the library.

[Alexander Ioffe]

Update - The plugin is now fully approved and available on plugins.gradle.org.

[Mohammad Zaki]

Good to hear that