<@U0BFDUP0E> does KotlinPoet handle formatting the...

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[evanchooly]

@jw does KotlinPoet handle formatting the output?

[jw]

What do you mean? It produces formatted code.

[evanchooly]

well, the question is probably poorly formed. ironically.

[evanchooly]

but the output will group the properties together, and the functions in another, etc. with the indentation on the functions normalized, etc. ?

[jw]

It groups, yes.

[jw]

And it indents the structure but not the contents of functions

[jw]

You're responsible for that using a CodeBlock which has indent/unindent methods.

[jw]

And methods like control flow auto-indent

[jw]

Basically check out the tests for examples

[evanchooly]

ok. i have the same-ish issue in kibble. i was trying to decide if it made sense to use kotlinpoet for the generation and have kibble just add the parsing functionality on top.

[jlleitschuh]

Or just run Ktlint on the output to format it when you are done generating it?
https://ktlint.github.io/

[evanchooly]

oooh. i was unaware of that one...

[jlleitschuh]

Its the only one as far as I'm aware of.

[jw]

I would be curious what you think isn't handled by KotlinPoet. I'm super annoyed that Dagger runs google-java-format after JavaPoet. It's a waste of time. I'd rather fix the tool to produce better output.

[jw]

Please file bugs if you find things

[evanchooly]

i'm of a similar mind with kibble. i try to produce the best output i can but I'd given some thought to an optional run of an external tool at the end. but i suppose that could be a build time concern/dependency rather than anything I need to worry about.