So… I’m not sure what the current status is - are ...

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[bod]

So… I’m not sure what the current status is - are we currently supposed to use apply plugin: 'kotlin-kapt' or is it an experimental thing? I mean you can use kapt dependencies even if you don’t do it, but it works differently it seems - which is a bit confusing. Any clarification on this would be much appreciated 🙂

[igoticecream]

@bod kapt is the "apt" or "annotationProcessor" for kotlin, it is used to generate code at compile time based on annotations, for things like dagger and butterknife

[bod]

Yes I understand that, but it seems that you can use kapt dependencies in gradle project even if you don’t use the kotlin-kapt plugin. And if you do use this plugin, you get a different version of kapt. Is this correct?

[lovis]

yes, kotlin-kapt is kapt3. Works well for us

[bod]

@lovis Ok so if you don't apply the plugin, you get an older kapt? Like, v2? Whereas if you use it, you get kapt3?

[lovis]

yeah

[bod]

ok thanks. And do you use generateStubs? This seems to be optional, or not, depending on which version 😉

[lovis]

no you are not allowed to use that with kapt3

[lovis]

i think its supposed automatically fall back to an older kapt version if you use that, but for me it simply didn’t compile

[bod]

hmm interesting

[bod]

do you use Dagger by any chance? The reason I'm asking is that I think the generated stubs are incorrect (public fields end up private)

[lovis]

yes I’m using dagger. I don’t have issues like that. Maybe clean build helps? 🙂

[lovis]

compile "com.google.dagger:dagger:$dagger_version"
    kapt "com.google.dagger:dagger-compiler:$dagger_version"

[bod]

I suppose you use lateinit for your injected fields? In this case they are correctly public.

[lovis]

yes that’s right.

[lovis]

so what are you doing?
@Inject var myField: Thing? = null or are you using notNull delegate

[bod]

that's right, @Inject var myField: Thing? = null - of course it makes more sense with lateinit 🙂 But this should work anyway so I think it's a bug

[lovis]

I think so too. https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/C0B8MA7FA/p1495442168869554 ⬅️ this guy seems to have a similar issue. maybe file a bug (or ask whether it’s known first in #general)

[bod]

ok, will do 🙂 Thanks