Is there a way to get the original source-code fro...

# compiler

[Alexander Ioffe]

Is there a way to get the original source-code from an IrFile instance? I know you can load it from the fileEntry path (e.g. Kapshot does that) but doing file-io inside of a IrGenerationExtension seems to be clunky and risky (e.g. what if the IrGenerationExtension is being called inside of a tiny incremental recompile that should take single-digit milliseconds).

[dmitriy.novozhilov]

You can try the following:

(irFile.metadata as? FirMetadataSource.File)
    ?.fir
    ?.source
    ?.getElementTextInContextForDebug()

[Alexander Ioffe]

Interesting! Its neat that I can just go into the frontend IR like that. Unfortunately I just get null because my irFile.metadata is a DescriptorMetadataSource.File .
Anything I can do from there?

[Alexander Ioffe]

Hum... irFile.getKtFile()?.text seems to be working. Does that do IO in the background or is the stuff in there already loaded?

[dmitriy.novozhilov]

It's already loaded

[Alexander Ioffe]

Any problems or caveats with doing it this way?

[dmitriy.novozhilov]

Nothing comes to mind