What are the possible consequences if I ignore ‘Package directive doesn’t match file location’ issue...

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[matt]

What are the possible consequences if I ignore ‘Package directive doesn’t match file location’ issue?

[Rob Elliot]

Outside an IDE it may confuse people… at usage site people wanting to navigate to the declaration may expect to find it at the directory implied by the package.

[Rob Elliot]

There are (in my view) valid use cases though: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-40623

[Rob Elliot]

IntelliJ has he concept of a “packagePrefix” so you can omit the directories that are common to all packages in a module; e.g. if you had a module foo where all packages are subpackages of com.mycompany.myapp.foo you can set the package prefix to that and then com.mycompany.myapp.foo.Foo can be in src/main/kotlin/Foo.kt rather than src/main/kotlin/com/mycompany/myapp/foo/Foo.kt.

You can set it in gradle as so https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-240235

[matt]

Thanks, I’ll dig into that.