hi, I have a set of xml files with tons of static ...

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[Pere Casafont]

hi, I have a set of xml files with tons of static data (350,000 lines) which need maintenance and version control; is kotlin DSL an option here? Or intellij/compile times will be destroyed?

[Czar]

I don't understand the question. There's git for version control, and for maintenance - no idea what you mean. Could you add some details? What are you proposing to use Kotlin DSL for?

[Pere Casafont]

a huge amount of data to specify how thousands of objects are created

[Pere Casafont]

let's say all the skills in a mmorpg

[Czar]

and what do you want to do with it? parse it with Kotlin? replace xml with Kt objects, or what?

[Pere Casafont]

yes, replace <skill id="12" name="Slap"><effect type="dmg" value="30" /></skill> with something like skill(12, "Slap") { effect(Effects.DMG, 30) }, just to give you an example

[Pere Casafont]

I have like 100,000 objects like that placed in several xml files, and it would be so neat to be able to use kotlin instead of xml... however, I guess that needs a parser or a script loader, rather than being placed in the src...

[Czar]

You would only have performance problems with clean compile, then incremental compilation would help. You could parse the xmls and generate code with something like kotlin-poet. You could also put different subtrees of the skills tree in separate modules, then gradle would also help with compilation, it would only compile changed modules.

[Czar]

Script loading in kotlin at this point is non-trivial, it's still work in progerss. You can ask around in #C0BT46EL8

[Czar]

Another point, compiling Kotlin based DSL will probably be much faster then loading data from XML

[Pere Casafont]

we're loading around one million xml lines in 20 secs so I guess not

[Pere Casafont]

ok, I'll rather wait for everything to be more mature, thanks for all your guidance!

[elect]

do you need it human readable?

[elect]

you could version-control the xml while having a binary version..

[elect]

you'll go down from 20s to a bunch of ms at max