Hi guys, Is there a way of parsing Kolin code? A l...

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[David Cuesta]

Hi guys, Is there a way of parsing Kolin code? A library or something like that in order to obtain the function names, parameters, parameters types and outputs?

[ignus]

Reflection API doesn't suit you?

[David Cuesta]

I would like to have something like that: https://github.com/Kotlin/grammar-tools but it doesn't work for me

[David Cuesta]

Now it is working for me but not in the expected manner, it doesn't return the types for example

[wasyl]

You can use embeddable Kotlin compiler, but I don’t see any documentation for it. You could read Detekt source code, they use it afaik:
https://github.com/arturbosch/detekt/blob/master/detekt-core/src/main/kotlin/io/gitlab/arturbosch/detekt/core/KtCompiler.kt
https://github.com/arturbosch/detekt/blob/master/detekt-api/src/main/kotlin/io/gitlab/arturbosch/detekt/api/internal/KotlinEnvironmentUtils.kt

Another thing that rings the bell for me is scripting engine https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/tree/master/libraries/examples/kotlin-jsr223-local-example

I’d love to hear someone more familiar with the topic chime in

[wasyl]

Also Android Lint’s source code should be useful, I believe they parse Kotlin internally as well

[Marat Akhin]

You could also try using one of the ANTLR grammars for Kotlin, if just parsing the code is enough for you

[gildor]

Android Lint (and IDEA) uses UAST
https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/tree/master/plugins/uast-kotlin