I stumbled across following problem: i get a `Long` value from the klock-library. Unfortunately klo...

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[thana]

I stumbled across following problem: i get a Long value from the klock-library. Unfortunately klock-js brings its own kotlin.js library hence the Kotlin.Long returned by klock is not the same Kotlin.Long the rest of the application uses. Is there a way to exclude klock's dependency on kotlin?

[Roman Artemev [JB]]

Doesn’t deleting klock’s kotlin.js help?

[thana]

yes, but on the one hand i don't think deleting transitive dependencies is good idea, on the other hand i wasn't able to do that, yet. @Ilya Goncharov [JB] handed me some gradle code to delete klock-dependencies:

tasks.getByName("kotlinNpmInstall") {
    doLast {
        File("$buildDir/js/node_modules/klock-root-klock/node_modules").deleteRecursively()
    }
}

But unfortunately that doesn't work in my main project as this task doesn't exist - and i couldn;t fgure out yet, whats the correct one

[Ilya Goncharov [JB]]

@thana I thought, that better is to delete only node_modules/kotlin for reliability (maybe in future there are other klock’s dependencies)
It needs to investigate, but seems that kotlin shouldn’t be transitive dependency at all
So you can use it untill klock fix its npm kotlin dependency

tasks.getByName("kotlinNpmInstall") {
    doLast {
        File("$buildDir/js/node_modules/klock-root-klock/node_modules/kotlin").deleteRecursively()
    }
}

[thana]

yes in fact i was thinking about amending the code pretty much that way - yet the task koitlinNpmInstall doesn't seem to exist 😕

[thana]

in fact there is no task with "npm" in its name 😞

[Ilya Goncharov [JB]]

It is very strange, without it, nodejs tests shouldn’t work
If you are sure that everything ok with it, you can set doFirst trigger on your jsNodeTest

tasks.getByName("jsNodeTest") {
    doFirst {
        File("$buildDir/js/node_modules/klock-root-klock/node_modules").deleteRecursively()
    }
}

But I would like to understand, why you have not kotlinNpmInstall task

[thana]

yea i loved to find that out, too, because in my small test-project it does exist and both projects use kotlin 1.3.60 and MPP

[thana]

@Ilya Goncharov [JB] btw i found out why the task kotlinNpmInstall does not exist: it exists on the root project only - but i have a multi (gradle-)module project.
Also i have to delete the js files from the $buildDir of the root module. now it works :-)

[thana]

yet very confusing: i have to put the code into the afterEvaluate blockl inside the submodules block referencing the rootProject again. putting it on the root project directly doesn't work 🤷‍♂️