Hello folks, Im trying to publish a kotlin-jvm-onl...

# library-development

[George]

Hello folks, Im trying to publish a kotlin-jvm-only library which is dependent to an internally library of mine. When i publish it, i try to consume it in my demo-project but it asks for the jar of the internal module of mine. What are my options if lets say i cant publish directly at least the internal lib? Thanks in advance for any answers or help.

[George]

I was thinking if i could just add a typealias for every exposed public api of the internal lib, this would be enough? or it is a really bad-idea?

[Big Chungus]

Your only option is to embed internal lib into your public lib jar, but then you still expose your internal code to the public

[Big Chungus]

Recommended practice for these cases is to simply use private maven repo. You can get one for free via gh packages or jfrog artifactory

[George]

hmm, ok thanks for the info 🙂

[rnett]

You could obfuscate your private lib, too, and then use shadow to embed it in your public lib. Consumers of your public lib will have issues if it adds inaccessible transitive dependencies

[George]

Hello @rnett, maybe you could give me an example of what do you mean by obfuscate your private lib, too, and then use shadow to embed it in your public lib . I can guess what you mean by use shadow to embed but im not sure what you mean by obfuscate , thanks in advance !. Also, about inaccessible transitive dependencies , i learned that the hard way 🙃. For now i publish them to a private repo like petuska recommend.

[rnett]

What I meant about the private dependencies is that consumers of your public lib will also need access to that private repo, assuming your public lib depends on your private one without embedding it somehow. Try making an example project that consumes your private lib and see what you need to do to get it working.

For the obfuscation and shadow: obfuscation is re-writing your code in a way that still works, but is essentially unreadable, for example with Proguard. Shadow is the Gradle plugin that's usually used to embed dependencies (the maven version is called Shade)