It’s been almost 3 years since the inception of <g...

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[Piotr Krzemiński]

It’s been almost 3 years since the inception of github-workflows-kt library, a tool that lets you write GitHub Actions workflows in Kotlin instead of YAML (featured in Java Advent in 2022 here). One of its flagship features, and an interesting subproblem, is providing type-safe Kotlin bindings for as many GitHub actions as possible. We started by hand-crafting and unit-testing each individual binding, but it clearly doesn’t scale well as we want to support as many actions as possible. Curious about the challenges we faced (and the ones we still face!), and what approaches we tried on our way? Want to learn how we implemented a Maven-compatible server as a part of the current solution? Does generating and compiling Kotlin code on the fly sound interesting? Read on!

https://www.javaadvent.com/2024/12/the-journey-of-providing-kotlin-bindings-for-github-actions.html