Is there still no Gradle plugin to generate Kotlin...

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[jdemeulenaere]

Is there still no Gradle plugin to generate Kotlin code based on (any platform) Kotlin code (similar to java annotation processors), or any kind of plans/KEEP for metaprogramming in Kotlin ? Something like official compiler API to manipulate (or even read only) the AST would be really nice.

[Czar]

There's kapt for annotation processing. And you can implement your own code generators, e.g. by using kotlin poet

[jdemeulenaere]

Annotation processing works only for Kotlin JVM, I want something similar for any platform 🙂

[Czar]

Oh, I see, I've misunderstood the question. I don't think there is anything like that, at least I haven't seen or heard anything about it, but I haven't purposefully researched the topic.

[karelpeeters]

Yes, they're planning a an official compiler plugin API. There are hints about it scattered trough a lot of videos and forums, eg. here's a sentence about it:

https://youtu.be/FAhR_sqlUy4?t=848▾

[jdemeulenaere]

Yeah I have noticed a few things inside the repository regarding IR but I'm being impatient for an official (beta/experimental) release.. 🙂

[louiscad]

You can make a gradle plugin that uses KotlinPoet, like SqlDelight is doing.

[jdemeulenaere]

Generating code is not the problem, reading (and maybe modifying) the AST in a proper way is 🙂