is there any built-in annotation to suppress 'unused' warnings for methods in a library? i.e. 'API methods' used by other code. or a good way i could define one?

Call them in tests :trollface:

Or better yet, actually unit-test those methods 😂

fair enough, but surely circumstances can exist where that may not always make sense. plus, i thought being explicit could be nice. so...does such an annotation exist?

You could add

@file:Suppress("unused")

at the top of the file it will suppress all warnings in that file.

thanks paulius. and it's easy to create an 'alias' for an annotation, isn't it? as in, if i wanted to define an annotation that was something like

@PublicAPI

but have it defined as basically

Suppress("unused")

?

You can only alias the name

typealias PublicAPI = Suppress

so it would still have to be with an argument

@PublicAPI("unused")

.

ah bummer. ok thanks.

Didn't know you could typealias annotations like that, that's interesting.